Under her cell phone plan, Mei Mei pays a flat cost of $46 per month and $5 per gigabyte. She wants to keep her bill under $70 per month. Write and solve an inequality which can be used to determine gg, the number of gigabytes Mei Mei can use while staying within her budget.

Answer 1

Let gg be the number of gigabytes Mei Mei can use while staying within her budget.

The cost Mei Mei pays for gigabytes can be calculated as 5 * gg.

The total cost Mei Mei pays per month is the sum of the flat cost and the cost of gigabytes, which is 46 + 5 * gg.

To stay within her budget of $70 per month, the total cost should be less than or equal to $70.

Therefore, the inequality to determine gg is:

46 + 5 * gg ≤ 70