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A pay phone at an airport charges $0.85 for the first four minutes (or part of ) and$0.34 for each extra minute (or part of). Express the cost c(m) of an m-minute phone call as a split function using the greatest integer function.

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Given:

Cost first 4 minutes=$0.85Cost per additional minute=$0.34\begin{align*} \text{Cost first 4 minutes}&=\$0.85 \\ \text{Cost per additional minute}&=\$0.34 \end{align*}

Let mm represents the number of minutes and let c(m)c(m) represent the cost of an mm-minute call.

First part m4\textbf{First part }m\leq 4

When m4m\leq 4, then the length of the phone call is at most 4 minutes.

In this case, we would then only have to pay the basic charge for the first 4 minutes.

c(m)=Cost first 4 minutes=$0.85c(m)=\text{Cost first 4 minutes}=\$0.85

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