SOLUTION: For her phone services, Lucy pays a monthly fee of $17, and she pays an additional $0.06 per minute of use. The least she has been charged in a month is $97.88. What are the pos

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Question 1163180: For her phone services, Lucy pays a monthly fee of $17, and she pays an additional $0.06 per minute of use. The least she has been charged in a month is $97.88.
What are the possible numbers of minutes she has used her phone in a month?
Use m for the number of minutes, and solve your inequality for m.
Answer by ikleyn(52756) About Me  (Show Source):
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The inequality is


    17 + 0.06*m >= 97.88   dollars.


Its solution is


    m >= %2897.88-17%29%2F0.06 = 1348 minutes.    ANSWER

Solved.