The monthly texting plan of All Star Cell is $11 per month and $0. 25 per text. The monthly texting plan of Top Line Cell is $14 per month and $0. 15 per text. A student wants to set up a system of equations to find the number of texts for which the total monthly cost of the two companies is the same. He uses the variables x and y. He lets y represent the total monthly cost. What will x represent? x = number of texts x = cost of the total number of texts x = total monthly cost x = cost of each text.

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60