Nova receives a bill for her cell phone each month. she pays a flat fee of $35 $ 35 plus $0.05 $ 0 . 05 per text message. this month, her bill without taxes was $51.50 $ 51 . 50 . which equation gives the number of text messages, t t , she sent this month?

none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square