Question

A phone company charges its customers as follows:

For the first 500 minutes used each month, the customer is charged a flat rate of $50. These 500 minutes are "included" in their monthly plan.
For any additional minutes used, the customer is charged an additional $.10 per minute.

Which type of function would be represent this situation: a step function or a piecewise function? Explain.

Answer 1

are there options?

Answer 2

Step function or piecewise