Your cell phone plan costs $34.99 per month plus $0.14 for each text message you send or receive. You have at most $39 to spend on your cell phone bill. What is the maximum number of text messages that you can send or receive month

The maximum number of text messages is _

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To find the maximum number of text messages, we need to first subtract the fixed cost of $34.99 from the total amount we can spend: $39 - $34.99 = $4.01.

Then we divide the remaining amount by the cost per text message: $4.01 / $0.14 = 28.64.

Since we cannot send or receive a fraction of a text message, the maximum number of text messages we can send or receive is 28.