Question

Lena has $2800 dollars in her account and makes automatic $700 monthly payments on a cell phone bill. Use a table to find when automatic payments would make the value of the account zero.

Answer 1

Well you can't go thur a month because $700 by 12 months is $8400.

Explanation:

700 x 12 = 8400

8400 - 2800 = -5600

So you would be negitative.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the account will reach zero within 4 months.

Explanation:

To make a correct table and find out when the 2800 in Lena's account will reach zero, you must subtract 700 from the total for each month.

The table would be formed as follows:

TOTAL 2800

MONTH 1: 2100

MONTH 2: 1400

MONTH 3: 700

MONTH 4: 0