Assume that in october of a particular year about 215 billion text messages were sent or received in the us, and the prediction is that in the next month it will be a 13% increase. about how many will be sent or received in november of the same year? rounded to the nearest tenth of a billion.

There will be billion messages sent or received in November.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given.

Number of text messages sent or received billion.

Increment on the very next month

Lets find what is

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So we will add this value to our previous months data.

Now

Number of text messages sent in the month of November billion.

Rounding to the nearest tenth the answer will be billion.

So billion text messages were sent or received in November.