SOLUTION: Hi Henry and Cecilia had a sum of 240 dollars. Henry received one quarter of Cecilia s money. He then gave 3/8 of the money he had to Cecilia. Finally each of them had the same a

Question 1122669: Hi
Henry and Cecilia had a sum of 240 dollars. Henry received one quarter of Cecilia s money. He then gave 3/8 of the money he had to Cecilia. Finally each of them had the same amount of money. Find the original amount of money that henry had.
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39630) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

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Henry received one quarter of Cecilia s money.
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He then gave 3/8 of the money he had to Cecilia.
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Finally each of them had the same amount of money.
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Simplify and solve the system.

Also, at the end, each of them had 120 dollars.
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