SOLUTION: A tenant required #60000 to pay his house rent. He borrowed one third of this amount from a friend and got the remaining from his brother. How much did he collect from his brother?

Question 976534: A tenant required #60000 to pay his house rent. He borrowed one third of this amount from a friend and got the remaining from his brother. How much did he collect from his brother?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If he got 1/3 from his friend, then he must have gotten 2/3 from his brother.

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