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GaryK [48]
3 years ago
13

Melissa puts 2/5 of her babysitting money in savings and uses 1/2 of the remaining money to go to the movies. If she has $12 lef

t, how much did she have at first?
Mathematics
2 answers:
ser-zykov [4K]3 years ago
8 0
If you work backwards, she had 24 before going to the movies. This is 3/5 of what she had originally. Use this to find 1/5 the but dividing 24 by 4 = 8 then multiply by 5 to get back to the original value 8 x 5 = 40
ololo11 [35]3 years ago
4 0
1/2 for the movies the other 1/2 is the $12
12×2=24
$24 is 3/5 of her babysitting money
24/3=8
$8 is 1/5 of her babysitting money
8×5=40
Solution: She had $40 at first
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