Question

Nadya’s cell phone provider charges a monthly fee of $35 for usage up to 200 minutes. If she uses more than this in a month, she is charged $0.23 for each additional minute. Let c represent the cost of Nadya’s bill if she uses m minutes of air time. Write an expression that can be used to find c if she used more than 200 minutes last month.

Answer 1

c = $35 + $0.23m

Explanation:

The expression is c = $35 + $0.23m

c is the cost of nadya's bill

m is the additional minutes

so if she uses more than 200 minutes the cost of her bill wiil be

$35 plus $0.23 multiply by the number of extra minutes spent.