Cell Phone Plans

Name ______CELL PHONE PLANS

Use the chart answer the following questions. Show all your work.

1. If a customer uses all 500 anytime minutes included in a plan, what is the cost per minute

a. of the Nextel plan?

b. of the Cingular plan?

c. of the Verizon plan?

d. of a 500 anytime minute plan with a monthly cost of c and an over anytime minute charge of $0.35 per minute?

2. Tad doesn’t want to pay more than $50.00 a month for his Verizon cell phone plan. He never goes over the 500 anytime minutes included in his plan. How many long distance minutes can Tad use a month?

Pre Algebra Page 2 Name ______3. Solve each equation or inequality and graph your result on a number line.

a. $0.40n = $4.00

b. $0.40n < $5.60

c. Tell what your solution for part b means in terms of the cell phone plans.

4. a. If Mr. Okran used 535 anytime minutes, what would his monthly bill be for the Cingular plan?

b. Write an expression that you could use to find Mr. Okran’s monthly bill given any number of minutes?

Pre Algebra