SOLUTION: Can someone please show me how to solve this? Your weekly paycheck is 15 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 880. Find the amount of each paycheck.

Question 790365: Can someone please show me how to solve this?
Your weekly paycheck is 15 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 880. Find the amount of each paycheck.
Answer by fcabanski(1391) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the coworker's pay check c.

Call your paycheck y. y is 15% less than c, which is c(1-.15) or y=.85c

Their sum is 880. c + .85c = 880

1.85c = 880

c=880/1.85 = 475.68

y = 475.68 * .85 = 404.32

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