SOLUTION: An inheritance of 600000 is to be divided among Scott, Alice and Tricia in the following manner: Alice is to receive 2/3 of what Scott gets. while Tricia gets 1/3 of what Scott get

Question 1065013: An inheritance of 600000 is to be divided among Scott, Alice and Tricia in the following manner: Alice is to receive 2/3 of what Scott gets. while Tricia gets 1/3 of what Scott gets. How much does each receive?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Adding together what Alice and Tricia get,
it is times what Scott gets,
so Scott gets half of the inheritance: ,
Tricia gets of that, or ,
and Alice gets the remaining .

USING A VARIABLE (to make it look like algebra class):
= amount that Scott gets,
so
= amount that Alice gets, and
= amount that Tricia gets.

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