Customers of a phone company can choose between two service plans for long distance calls. The first plan has a one-time activation fee and charges cents a minute. The second plan has no activation fee and charges cents a minute. After how many minutes of long distance calls will the costs of the two plans be equal?
it can't be done unless you have numbers for activation free, and cost/min
To find out after how many minutes of long-distance calls the costs of the two plans will be equal, we need to set up an equation.
Let's assume x represents the number of minutes of long-distance calls.
For the first plan, the cost can be calculated as:
Cost of the first plan = activation fee + (cents per minute * number of minutes)
Cost of the first plan = activation fee + (x * cents per minute)
For the second plan, the cost can be calculated as:
Cost of the second plan = cents per minute * number of minutes
Cost of the second plan = x * cents per minute
Since we want to find the point where the costs are equal, we can set up the following equation:
activation fee + (x * cents per minute) = x * cents per minute
Now we can solve this equation to determine the value of x.
Unfortunately, you have not provided the values for the activation fee and the cents per minute for each plan. If you provide those values, I can help you with the calculations.