A text message plan costs ?$1 per month plus ?$0.36 per text. Find the monthly cost for x text messages.

Question

$1 per month

$0.36 per text

Answer 1

Hello, thank you for taking the time to post your question!

I think the question wants you to set up a general equation that models the monthly cost. For this scenario that is

C(x) = 1 + 0.36x , where

C(x) is the total monthly cost in dollars

x is the number of text messages sent

I hope that helps you get moving in a better direction on this type of question! Feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions beyond that :)

Answer 2

The equation to find the monthly cost would be y= $0.36x + 1.

 

Once you find out how many texts you will be sending within a month (x), you just plug it in and you will have your monthly cost.