SOLUTION: A cell company charges a monthly fee of 100 pesos for the first 1000 text messages, and 1 peso for each additional text message. Karen's bill for text messages for the month of May

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Question 993628: A cell company charges a monthly fee of 100 pesos for the first 1000 text messages, and 1 peso for each additional text message. Karen's bill for text messages for the month of May is 385 pesos. How many text messages did she send that month?
Answer by Cromlix(4381) About Me  (Show Source):
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Hi there,
First take the 100 pesos which equals 1000 texts
This leaves a charge of 285 pesos, which at 1 peso
per text = 285 texts.
In total Karen sent 1,285 texts.
Hope this helps :-)