SOLUTION: Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has no monthly fee but charges $0.16 for each minute of calls. The sec

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Question 1002629: Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has no monthly fee but charges
$0.16
for each minute of calls. The second plan has a
$23
monthly fee and charges an additional
$0.12
for each minute of calls. For how many minutes of calls will the costs of the two plans be equal?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the number of minutes, x.
Then set up the equation
.16x = 23 + .12x
Subtract .12x and then divide and get
.04x = 23
x = 575 minutes