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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop too sure

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brought to you by text messages every time we see

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an abbreviation we don't recognize we always wonder whether we're

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just really out of touch or someone's cat walked across

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their iphone Mr abdul is choosing between two cellphone plans

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plant a charge is a flat fee of three bucks

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a month and twenty cents per text message Plan b

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charges sixty cents per text message but offers a monthly

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rebate of seven bucks if mr abdul chooses plan b

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what is the maximum number of text messages he consented

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one month Or plan b to cost no more than

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plan a And here the vigilante All right we'll wait

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Is mr abdul buying his phone for himself or for

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his fourteen year old daughter kelly Because she just got

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dumped by jonathan reynolds his past sunday and she is

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gonna have a lot of texting to do over the

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next few weeks We're just saying i'm looking out for

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you there mr f okay so we're looking at options

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of zero for eight twenty five spoof we're really hoping

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the correct answer is d because we pretty much just

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sent a text messages By the time we walked out

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on the horizon story waken rewrite plan a is a

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linear equation and any time we make a word problem

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look matthew well that's a good start so let's just

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do it since it twenty cents for a message and

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a number of messages is what we don't know We

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can call that point two x one x would be

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a whole dollar and then tack on a plus three

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for three dollars monthly charge so we get point two

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x plus three Well plan b is sixty cents per

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message with a seven dollars monthly rebate So point six

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x minus seven now we're trying to figure out where

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these two would meet in the middle cost wise so

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let's set him equal to each other Tothe point two

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x plus three equals point six x minus seven we

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can add seven of both sides to get point two

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x plus ten equals point six x then subtract point

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two x from both sides to get ten equals point

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for x and finally divide both sides by point for

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to get x equals twenty five which is option d

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mister ray we strongly suggest you just go with plan

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a So you can text to your heart's content without

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breaking the bank Then again if this for kelly we

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might actually recommend plan c hu tin cans and a 00:02:09.98 --> [endTime] length of string Your wallet will thank you

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