Question 1) The phone company NextFell has a monthly cellular plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then a c

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Question 1) The phone company NextFell has a monthly cellular plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then a c

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Question 1) The phone company NextFell has a monthlycellular plan where a customer pays a flat monthly fee and then acertain amount of money per minute used on the phone. If a customeruses 380 minutes, the monthly cost will be $161. If the customeruses 800 minutes, the monthly cost will be $308.
A) Find an equation in the form y=mx+b where x isthe number of monthly minutes used and y is the totalmonthly of the NextFell plan.
Answer: y=
B) Use your equation to find the total monthly cost if 862minutes are used.Answer: If 862 minutes are used, the total cost willbe_______ dollars.
Question 2 ) Diseases tend to spread according to theexponential growth model. In the early days of AIDS, the growthfactor (i.e. common ratio; growth multiplier) was around 1.8. In1983, about 1900 people in the U.S. died of AIDS. If the trend hadcontinued unchecked, how many people would have died from AIDS in2006?
Answer :____ people
(Note: once diseases become widespread, they start to behavemore like logistic growth, but don't worry about that for thepurpose of this exercise)
PLEASE HELP IM STRUGGLING THANK YOU SO MUCH PLEASE
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