SOLUTION: a cellular phone company charges a $49.99 monthly fee for 600 free minutes.Each additional minute costs $.35. This month you used 750 minutes. How much do you owe?

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Question 63299: a cellular phone company charges a $49.99 monthly fee for 600 free minutes.Each additional minute costs $.35. This month you used 750 minutes. How much do you owe?
Answer by jai_kos(139) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let us construct the equation fro the given equations,
Amount for 600 minutes + extra minute * amount for each minute = total amount
$49.99 + 150 * 0.35 = total amount
49.99 + 52.5 = total amount
102.49 = total amount
Therefore the customer has to pay $102.49

Reason
Given 600 minutes are free, so we have'
750 minutes,
So the extra minutes is 150