SOLUTION: Suppose you spend 3/5 of your monthly budget on food and 1/4 on bus fare food and bus fare total $34/mo. What is your monthly budget?

Question 19558: Suppose you spend 3/5 of your monthly budget on food and 1/4 on bus fare food and bus fare total $34/mo. What is your monthly budget?
Answer by xcentaur(357) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let your monthly budget be x
Then you spend 3/5 on food
so cost of food=(3/5)x

you spend 1/4 on bus fare
so cost of bus fare=(1/4)x

The total of these two is $34
so we get,

LCM

x=40 dollars
Thats your monthly budget

-Prabhat

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