Problema Solution
One smartphone plan costs $50 per months for talk and messaging and $6 per gigabyte of data used each month. A second smartphone plan costs $60 per month for talk and messaging and $3 per gigabyte of data used each month. How many gigabytes would have to be used for the plans to cost the same amount?
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Let 'x' represent the gigabytes used per month.
50 + 6x = 60 + 3x
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x = 3.33 gigabytes
The plans will cost the same for 3.33 gigabytes used.