SOLUTION: Candice paid her parents $45 for rent and divided the rest of her paycheck evenly into a checking account, a savings account, and a retirement fund. She put $192 into her savings a

Question 1044207: Candice paid her parents $45 for rent and divided the rest of her paycheck evenly into a checking account, a savings account, and a retirement fund. She put $192 into her savings account.
Write and equation and answer how much was candice paid.
Please help!
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
After paying $ for rent,
Candice divided the rest of her paycheck evenly into three equal parts.
One of those 3 equal parts, in $ was
that went into her savings account.
The other two parts, in $, were
that went into a checking account,
and
that went into a retirement fund.
Putting the parts back together, you see that the total of her paycheck was.
or if you want to call the amount of the paycheck .
The equation can be summarized as
,
which could have been the first equation written:
paycheck = plus equal parts of each.
To calculate:

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