SOLUTION: Person A and B share an amount of money. B receives 150 more than A. What is the original amount?
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Question 638794: Person A and B share an amount of money. B receives 150 more than A. What is the original amount?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent A's amount. Then 
must be the amount B got. So the original amount must have been 
. That's as far as you can go with this problem without more information.
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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