Rachel sent or received 10,290 text messages in the month of September.

Question

If each text message over the first 150 messages cost 8 cents, what was her texting bill? $126,750 Explain how you got your answer. I subtracted 10,290 by 150 then I divided 10,140 by 0.08 and I got 126,750.

Assuming that she slept 7 hours each day, what was the average number of text messages that passed through her phone each hour during her awake hours? Explain how you got your answer.

Answer 1

Your first answer doesn't make any sense. No one would pay 126 thousand dollars a month for texting.

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