a baseball team paid eight times as much to their ace pitcher as they paid to their shortstop. if they paid 81 million for the t

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wo salaries, what did they pay each player?

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GenaCL600 [577] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-01T10:05:21+03:00

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x +y = 81 million

let x be the short stop and y be the pitcher

so pitcher (y) gets 2 times what the the shortstop (x) gets so y = 2x

so x + 2x = 81 million

3x = 81

x = 27

the short stop makes 27 million

the pitcher makes 54 million