Bob’s monthly phone bill is made up of a $10 fee plus $0.05 per minute. Bob’s phone bill for July was $22. Write an equation to model the situation using m to represent the number of minutes. Solve the equation to determine the number of phone minutes Bob used in July.

the next step after writing the equation would be to subtract 10 from both sides to get 0.05x=12. after this you would then have to divide 12 by 0.05 to get 240 minutes. you could check it by putting 240 in for x to get 10+0.05(240)=22. you would then multiply 0.05 by 240 to get 12 and then add 10 onto it to get 22 which was already given.

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Answer:

equation: 10 +0.05m = 22

solution: Bob used 240 minutes in July

Step-by-step explanation:

Bob's bill is the total of the fixed fee and the charges based on minutes. The latter is 0.05m, where m is the number of minutes. Hence, Bob's July bill is ...

10 + 0.05m = 22 . . . . . total of charges for July is $22

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The equation is solved by subtracting the constant and dividing by the coefficient of m.

0.05m = 12 . . . . . subtract 10

m = 12/0.05 = 240

Bob used 240 minutes in July.