SOLUTION: mary sells fruit with four of her friends. if the earnings are divided evenly, how much must the business make in order for each person to earn $30?

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Question 1162049: mary sells fruit with four of her friends. if the earnings are divided evenly, how much must the business make in order for each person to earn $30?
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Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


If you took all of the earnings and divided them into four piles so that each pile contained $30, how much money would there be altogether?


John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
Answer by ikleyn(52921)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The business should make 30*(1+4) = 30*5 = 150 dollars total earnings. 


    Assuming that all the business' earning is spend to compensate sellers . . . // (which is usually not the case . . . .

    But we can assume it for the sake getting the solution to the problem).


Notice the difference between my statement and the John' statement: 

    I multiply $30  by 5 (five), while John assumes to multiply by 4.



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