A family’s cell phone contract charges a monthly fixed fee of $56 for five lines and then $0.08 per minute. The latest cell phone bill was $164 . How many minutes did the family use ? Write an equation to represent this situation . Then solve the equation .
if x equals the total minutes the family used then.. [tex]56 + .08x = 164[/tex] now to get x by itself.. subtract 56 from both sides [tex].08x = 108[/tex] divide both sides by .08 [tex]x = 1350[/tex] the family used a total of 1,350 minutes
