Marcie parks her car in a parking garage where it costs $3.00 for the first hour and $1.50 for each additional hour. this is represented by the following equation where t = time and p = the cost of parking, in dollars
if marcie paid $9.00 to park, how many hours was her car in the garage?

The monthly texting plan of all star cell is $11 per month and $0.25 per text. the monthly texting plan of top line cell is $14 per month and $0.15 per text. a student wants to set up a system of equations to find the number of texts for which the total monthly cost of the two companies is the same. he uses the variables x and y. he lets y represent the total monthly cost. what will x represent? x = number of texts x = cost of the total number of texts x = total monthly cost x = cost of each text