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AlgebraEasyZero of a quantity from a bill

Algebra practice question

A phone plan costs $2 per month plus $2 for each gigabyte of data used. In a month when the bill was exactly $2, how many gigabytes of data were used?

Answer: 0

2 + 2g = 2 gives 2g = 0, so g = 0: no data was used.

Common wrong answers

If you answered 1
1 gigabyte would make the bill $4.
If you answered 2
2 gigabytes would make the bill $6.
If you answered 4
4 comes from adding the two $2 amounts instead of solving.

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