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Cell phone charges: A national cell phone company advertises that calls of 1 min or less d...

Cell phone charges: A national cell phone company advertises that calls of 1 min or less do not count toward monthly usage. Calls lasting longer than 1 min are calculated normally using a ceiling function, meaning a call of 1 min, 1 sec will be counted as a 2-min call. Using the ideas from Section 2.2, (a) write the cell phone charges as a piecewise-defined function C(m), where C(m) is the cost of a call lasting m minutes, and include the domain of the function. Then (b) graph the function, and (c) use the graph or function to determine if a cell phone subscriber has exceeded the 30 free minutes granted by her calling plan for calls lasting 2 min 3 sec, 13 min 46 sec, 1 min 5 sec, 3 min 59 sec, and 8 min 2 sec. (d) What was the actual usage in minutes and seconds?

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