By your cell phone contract, you pay a monthly fee plus for each minute you spend on the phone. In one month, you spent minutes over the phone, and had a bill totaling .
Let be the number of minutes you spend on the phone in a month, and let be your total cell phone bill for that month. Use a linear equation to model your monthly bill based on the number of minutes you spend on the phone.
This line’s slope-intercept equation is
.
If you spend minutes on the phone in a month, you would be billed
.
If your bill was one month, you must have spent
minutes on the phone in that month.
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