Problema Solution

The cellular phone service for a business executive is $35 per month plus $0.40 per minute of phone use. Write an equation for the number of minutes, m, used in a month when the executive's cellular phone bill was $102.20.

What is the equation?

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let number of minutes be m

35 + 0.40m = 102.20

m = (102.2 - 35)/0.40 =168 minutes