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2.3 Exercise 38

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use this scenario: Two different telephone carriers offer the following plans that a person is considering. Company A has a monthly fee of $20 and charges of $.05/min for calls. Company B has a monthly fee of $5 and charges $.10/min for calls.

Find the model of the total cost of Company A’s plan, using m m for the minutes.

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 2.3 Models and Applications, exercise 38

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