A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30.00 and you owe $59.50. How many text messages did you have?

Question

I'm stuck on this problem in my homework please help.

Answer 1

If the monthly fee is $30, then subtracting $30 from $59.50 tells you that you spent $29.50 on text messages. If each text message costs $0.25, then you have to divide $29.50 by $0.25 to figure out how many text messages you sent. 29.50/0.25 = 118, so you had 118 text messages.