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Question

A cell phone company charges a monthly fee plus $0.25 for each text message. The monthly fee is $30.00 and you owe $59.50. Write and solve an

equation to find how many text messages I you had

An equation is

= 59.5

You had text messages

Answer

59.5/0.25 = 238 text messages

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To solve this equation, we need to isolate the number of text messages. To do this, we need to subtr...