By your cell phone contract, you pay a monthly fee plus some money for each minute you use the phone during the month. In one month, you spent minutes on the phone, and paid . In another month, you spent minutes on the phone, and paid .
Let be the number of minutes you talk over the phone in a month, and let be your cell phone bill for that month. Use a linear equation to model your monthly bill based on the number of minutes you talk over the phone.
  1. This linear model’s slope-intercept equation is .
  2. If you spent minutes over the phone in a month, you would pay .
  3. If in a month, you paid of cell phone bill, you must have spent minutes on the phone in that month.

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