A phone plan has a limit of $25 that can be spent on text messages. The base cost of the text plan will cost a user $5. Each text will cost $0.05. How many text messages (t) can a user send without exceeding the plan limits?

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Vocaloid · Answer

base cost + (price per text)(number of texts) $\le$ limit

plugging in the appropriate values from the problem

5 + 0.05t $\le$ 25

solve for t. if your answer is a non-integer, round down to the nearest integer