Problema Solution

Stacey owes $16.40 for text messaging in the month of November. if her first text messaging plan cost $14 for the first 500 messages and 20 cent for each additional text message, how many text messages did she send that month?

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Let n stand for the number of text messages sent:


14+.2(n-500)=16.40


Solving for n, we get:

n=512