SOLUTION: Asher had $460 more money than Oscar at first. After Asher spent 3/4 of his money to buy a pair of pants and Oscar spent 1/5 of his money to buy a blouse, they had a total of $254

Question 1194913: Asher had $460 more money than Oscar at first. After Asher spent 3/4 of his money to buy a pair of pants and Oscar spent 1/5 of his money to buy a blouse, they had a total of $254 left. How much more did the pair of pants cost than the blouse?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Asher had $460 more money than Oscar at first. After Asher spent 3/4 of his money to buy a pair of pants
and Oscar spent 1/5 of his money to buy a blouse, they had a total of $254 left.
How much more did the pair of pants cost than the blouse?
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Originally Oscar had x dollars; Asher had (x+460) dollars. After spending, they had (Oskar) and (Asher). The sum of money which left gives an equation for x + = 254 dollars. To find x, multiply both sides by 5*4 = 20; then simplify 16x + 5x + 2300 = 254*20 21x = 254*20 - 2300 = 2780 x = 2780/21 = 132.38095 dollars. Would the numbers in the problem be correct, x must be integer number of cents. Since it is not so, I conclude that the input numbers in the problem are DEFECTIVE. ANSWER. The input numbers in the problem are DEFECTIVE.

You stole my time by posting defective problem.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
asHer & osCar

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In case some practical approximations were used, then
Oscar originally had $132.38 and Asher originally had $592.38.
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