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you need to choose between two telephone plans for local calls. Plan A charges $25 per month for unlimited calls. Plan B has a monthly fee of $13 with a charge of $0.06 per local call. How many local telephone calls in a month make plan A a better deal?

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Plan A charges $25 per month for unlimited calls. Plan B has a monthly fee of $13 with a charge of $0.06 per local call. How many local telephone calls in a month make plan A a better deal?

Plan A - $25 per month

Plan B - $13 + $0.06x     ;  variable x represents number of local calls

Equation:

13 + 0.06x < 25

0.06x < 25 -13

0.06x < 12

x < 12/0.06

x< 200 ; means that if you make more less than 200 calls, plan B would be better. So to answer the question, you should make more than 200 local calls in a month so that plan A would be better..