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 $0.12 for each minute of calls. The second

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Question 1047023: Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has no monthly fee but charges $0.12 for each minute of calls. The second plan has $18 monthly fee and charges an additional $0.08 for each minute of calls. For how many minutes of calls will the costs of the two plans be equal?
Answer by jorel555(1290) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let n be the minutes of phone use. Then:
.12n=18+.08n
.04n=18
n=450 minutes of phone use before the plans are equal. ☺☺☺☺