SOLUTION: If Heather makes $2,000 a month and pays $750 for rent, what fraction of her income is spent on rent?

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Question 632383: If Heather makes $2,000 a month and pays $750 for rent, what fraction of her income is spent on rent?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
750/2000 = (250*3)/(250*8) = 3/8

So of her income is spent on rent.

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