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Max's cell phone plan charges a monthly "pay-as-you-go rate" of $0.13 for each text message sent or received. If Max was charged $7.41 for 15 more sent texts than he received, how many texts did Max send?

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To solve the problem step by step, we can follow these steps: ### Step 1: Define Variables Let $ x $ be the number of text messages Max sent. According to the problem, he sent 15 more texts than he received. Therefore, the number of texts he received can be expressed as $ x - 15 $.

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