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Lena purchased a prepaid phone card for $30. Long distance calls cost 17 cents a minute using this card. Lena used her card only once to make a long distance call. If the remaining credit on her card is $24.05, how many minutes did her call last?
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\n" ); document.write( "It was $30, now it's $24.05, so she used $5.95 of it.
\n" ); document.write( "595cents/17 cents/min = 35 minutes.
\n" ); document.write( "17 cents/minute is a bad deal.
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