SOLUTION: Suppose in one year, total revenues from digital sales of pop/rock, tropical (salsa/merengue/cumbia/bachata), and urban (reggaeton) Latin music in a certain country amounted to $21

Question 1110122: Suppose in one year, total revenues from digital sales of pop/rock, tropical (salsa/merengue/cumbia/bachata), and urban (reggaeton) Latin music in a certain country amounted to $21 million. Pop/rock music brought in twice as much as the other two categories combined and $9 million more than tropical music. How much revenue was earned from digital sales in each of the three categories?
Found 2 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic:
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

$21 million total; and pop/rock brought in twice as much as the other two combined. That means pop/rock was 2/3 of the total.

(1) pop/rock: 2/3 of $21 million = $14 million

$14 million for pop/rock leaves $7 million for the other two combined.

Pop rock ($14 million) brought in $9 million more than tropical music, so

(2) tropical music: $14 million - $9 million = $5 million

And so

(3) urban: $7 million - $5 million = $2 million

Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
p, pop/rock
t, tropical
u, urban
Done as millions

Second Equation:

Substitute for in the total revenue, First equation:

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SUMMARY
p, pop/rock, 14 million
t, tropical, 5 million
u, urban, 2 million
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