SOLUTION: Cynthia and Lucille agreed to form a partnership. The partnership agreement requires that Lucille invest $2,637.00 more than four-fifths of what Cynthia is to invest. If the partne

Question 1199459: Cynthia and Lucille agreed to form a partnership. The partnership agreement requires that Lucille invest $2,637.00 more than four-fifths of what Cynthia is to invest. If the partnership's capital is to be $56,160.00, how much should Lucille invest?
Answer by ikleyn(52781) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Cynthia invests  x  dollars.

Lucille invests    dollars.


The total money equation is

    x +  = 56160  dollars.


The rest is just simple arithmetic.

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