Under her cell phone plan, Autumn pays a flat cost of $66 per month and $5 per gigabyte, or part of a gigabyte. (For example, if she used 2.3 gigabytes, she would have to pay for 3 whole gigabytes.) She wants to keep her bill under $80 per month. What is the maximum whole number of gigabytes of data she can use while staying within her budget

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Under her cell phone plan, Autumn pays a flat cost of $66 per month and $5 per gigabyte, or part of a gigabyte. (For example, if she used 2.3 gigabytes, she would have to pay for 3 whole gigabytes.) She wants to keep her bill under $80 per month. What is the maximum whole number of gigabytes of data she can use while staying within her budget

 

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The given flat cost is F=$66.

The cost per gigabyte is c=$5.

The given budget is B=$80.

The expression for the given budget is,

F+xcB

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