A phone plan has a limit of $25 that can be spent on text messages. The base cost of the text plan will cost a user $5. Each text will cost $0.05. How many text messages (t) can a user send without exceeding the plan limits?

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Answer:

  400

Step-by-step explanation:

If the plan is used to its limit, the number of texts, t, that can be sent is ...

  5 +0.05t = 25

  0.05t = 20 . . . . . . . . . . subtract 5

  t = 20/0.05 = 400 . . .  divide by 0.05

A user can send 400 texts without exceeding plan limits.