Question

Your weekly paycheck is 20 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 670. Find the

Answer 1

Answer:

Yours paycheck is 297.78. Your coworkers is 372.22

Explanation:

Let x represent your paycheck and y represent coworkers paycheck.

Your paycheck is 20% less than your coworker so we can represent this as

$0.8y = x$

and We also know that

$x + y = 670$

We subsitue y for x.

$0.8y + y = 670$

$1.8y = 670$

$y = 372.22$

So your coworker paycheck is 372.22.

Plug this back in to either equation, to solve for x.

$372.22 + x = 670$

$x = 297.78$

So our paycheck is 297.78.