Under his cell phone plan, Jacob pays a flat cost of $40.50 per month and $3 per gigabyte. He wants to keep his bill at $48.90 per month. Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine gg, the number of gigabytes of data Jacob can use while staying within his budget.
Under his cell phone plan, Jacob pays a flat cost of $40.50 per month and $3 per gigabyte. He wants to keep his bill at $48.90 per month. Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine gg, the number of gigabytes of data Jacob can use while staying within his budget.
Could we find the answer to this problem the same way? "Under his cell phone plan, Alonso pays a flat cost of $53.50 per month and $3 per gigabyte. He wants to keep his bill at $59.80 per month. Write and solve an equation which can be used to determine gg, the number of gigabytes of data Alonso can use while staying within his budget."
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To determine the number of gigabytes of data Jacob can use while staying within his budget, we can set up an equation.
Let's assume Jacob can use gg gigabytes of data.
The cost he pays for the gigabytes of data is given by the formula: cost = 3 * gg.
In addition to the cost of the data, Jacob pays a flat cost of $40.50 per month.
So, the total cost of Jacob's cell phone bill, including the data cost, should be equal to or less than his budget of $48.90 per month.
Therefore, we can set up the equation:
40.50 + 3 * gg ≤ 48.90.
To solve this equation for gg, we'll follow these steps:
1. Start by subtracting 40.50 from both sides of the equation:
40.50 - 40.50 + 3 * gg ≤ 48.90 - 40.50,
3 * gg ≤ 8.40.
2. Divide both sides of the equation by 3:
(3 * gg) / 3 ≤ 8.40 / 3,
gg ≤ 2.80.
Therefore, Jacob can use a maximum of 2.80 gigabytes of data while staying within his budget of $48.90 per month.
idek
3gg + 40.5 ≤ 48.9
3gg ≤ 8.40
gg ≤ 2.8