Acell phone company offers two different monthly plans. plan a charges $41 for unlimited cell phone minutes plus $0.10 per text message. plan b charges $31 for unlimited cell phone minutes plus $0.15 per text message. how many text messages must a customer send in order for the cost of plan a to be equal to cost of plan b?

41+0.10x = 31+0.15x

10 +0.10x=0.15x

10=0.05x

x=10/.05

x= 200 text messages

check 200*0.10 = 20 +41 =61

200*0.15 = 30+31 = 61

 they equal each other so number of texts is 200

$9.89

step-by-step explanation:

9.90 = p x .06 x .25 (3/12 changed to a decimal)

9.90 = p x 0.015

9.90 - 0.015 = p

9.89 = p

the largest number of the four options is 1.8 x 10-2

you have it in scientific notation.

1.80 x 10-6   = 0.00000180

1.80 x 10-4   = 0.000180 (bigger, or "less small", than the former one)

so

1.8 x 10-2       = 0.0180. as you see. the "less small", or the biggest one of them all.

as you have negative exponent, it means you are dividing 1.8 by 100 (i.e. moving the dot towards left, two times).

if you had positive exponent for the scientific notation, power of tenths, you would be multiplying times 100 (moving the dot towards right) as below:

1.8 x (10)2 = 180

so. if you have negative exponent in scientific notation, move the dot toward left. if it is positive, toward right as many times the exponent tells you.