SOLUTION: In a single week at a Call Centre, the team of Jimmy, Stephanie, Tom and Abigail had received a total of 140 calls. Stephanie received twice as many calls as Jimmy and Tom receiv

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Question 1140287: In a single week at a Call Centre, the team of Jimmy, Stephanie, Tom and Abigail had received a total of 140 calls.
Stephanie received twice as many calls as Jimmy and Tom received 20 less calls than Stephanie. Abigail had received a quarter as many calls as Tom.
How many calls did each of the team receive?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Abigail had received a quarter as many calls as Tom.
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Try A for Abigail's number of calls.
Read the sequence of sentences in reverse order to fill a table:

Jimmy             2A+10
Stephanie         4A+20
Tom               4A
Abigail            A
TOTAL             140

First solve for A and then find 4A.

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