SOLUTION: A phone company charges $0.09 per minute for any long distance call, along with a $5 monthly fee. Your monthly bill shows that you owe $27.23. For how many minutes of long distance

Question 768964: A phone company charges $0.09 per minute for any long distance call, along with a $5 monthly fee. Your monthly bill shows that you owe $27.23. For how many minutes of long distance calls were you charged
Found 2 solutions by solver91311, josmiceli:
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Subtract $5.00 from $27.23. Divide what is left by $0.09.

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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of minutes used
The monthly charge, = is

given:

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247 minutes of long distance calls were charged

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