SOLUTION: a student budgets $25 for his cellphone each month. he pays $10 for the service and $0.05 per minute.he knows that his budget can be off by $5 in either direction. What is the maxi

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Question 1028508: a student budgets $25 for his cellphone each month. he pays $10 for the service and $0.05 per minute.he knows that his budget can be off by $5 in either direction. What is the maximum and minimum number of minutes? Write an absolute value equation representing this situation. I got |10+0.05x-25|=5.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) About Me  (Show Source):
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The equation is good, but should be an inequality. Continue that way and solve it.