Question

The cellular phone service for a business executive is $35 per month plus $0.40 per minute of phone use over 900 min. For a month in which the executive's cellular phone bill was $101.80, how many minutes did the executive use the phone?
min

Answer 1

what does min mean?

anyways lets solve this

Answer 2

min means minute

Answer 3

167 was wrong

Answer 4

who told you 167?!

Answer 5

so first what is 101.8 - 35

Answer 6

66.8

Answer 7

so how many times does 0.40 go into 66.8

Answer 8

26.72

Answer 9

ok?

Answer 10

add 0.40 to its self til you get 66.8 the number of times you added 0.40 to its self is the answer

Answer 11

in other words keep doing 0.40+0.40 til you get 66.8

Answer 12

I'm confused?

Answer 13

what number should i do with what

Answer 14

whats 0.40+0.40

Answer 15

0.8

Answer 16

whats 0.8 +0.4

Answer 17

1.2

Answer 18

whats 1.2 +0.4

Answer 19

1.6

Answer 20

whats 1.6 +0.4

Answer 21

2

Answer 22

whats 2+0.4

Answer 23

2.4

Answer 24

whats 2.4+0.4

Answer 25

2.8

Answer 26

whats 2.8+0.4

Answer 27

3.2

Answer 28

are you starting to get what i'm doing?

Answer 29

yes

Answer 30

do you think that you can do the rest on your own?

Answer 31

can u give me the answer

Answer 32

try doing the rest on your own then tell me what you got and i'll tell you if you got it

Answer 33

can u tales tell me how to do it in a short way

Answer 34

brb

Answer 35

ok

Answer 36

He was on his phone for a total of 1067 minutes, 167 overage minutes