I'm not sure how i'm supposed to set up the equation to solve this.

Question

A phone company offers a plan for long distance service charges of .08 per minute. Another phone company offers a plan for $6 per month plus .02 per minute. For what number of minutes per month are the costs of the two plans the same?

Answer 1

just set up two expressions for the costs, and set them equal. For m minutes, you want

.08m = 6.00 + .02m

Now just find m which makes the two values equal.