SOLUTION: A promotional deal for long distance phone service charges a $15 basic fee plus $0.05 per minute
for all calls. If Joe's phone bill was $66 under this promotional deal, how many m
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Question 898953: A promotional deal for long distance phone service charges a $15 basic fee plus $0.05 per minute
for all calls. If Joe's phone bill was $66 under this promotional deal, how many minutes of phone calls did he make? Round to the nearest integer, if necessary. Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The problem just does not seem to describe enough information. Here is attempt to work with what you have:
Promotion: using t for minutes
Bill for the Promotion:
66
That $66 bill would be .
Not known if the deal is for a month or a year or some other time period. Still the bill was $66.
Solve that bill equation for t, the number of minutes. minutes, which is 17 hours.
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