SOLUTION: If a worker earn five times as much in September as in each of the other months, what part of the earnings was earned in September?
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Question 1067863: If a worker earn five times as much in September as in each of the other months, what part of the earnings was earned in September?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In each of the other 11 months, let quantity earned per month be w.
Those 11 months, worker earns 11w.
September: Worker earns 5w.
Total earnings for the whole year: 16w.
Fraction of total year earnings earned in September:
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