SOLUTION: My weekly salary is $40 less than twice my colleague's salary. If together our salaries total $2060, what is my salary?

Question 394289: My weekly salary is $40 less than twice my colleague's salary. If together our salaries total $2060, what is my salary?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

if your weekly salary is $ less than your colleague's salary , you can write it as:

........(1)

If together your salaries total $, you can write it as:

........(2)

to find out what is your salary, solve this system:

........(1)

........(2)
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........(1).solve for

........(1)......substitute in (2)

........(2)...solve for

.....now find

........your salary

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