SOLUTION: Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charl

Question 1194873: Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?
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Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car.
Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest.
What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
let c = cost of the car
c - c - c = Charles' share
common denominator is 12
- - = is the fraction Charles paid
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Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?
c - c = 1200
get rid of the fractions, mult by 12, cancel the fractions
4c - 3c = 12(1200)
c = $14,400 is the cost of the car
Answer by MathTherapy(10810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?

Doesn't that dude realize that the cost of the car CANNOT be $14,400?
How can it cost that little when Brenda paid of the cost, which is $12,000 more than the cost
that Alex paid? Don't these people look at what they're doing and the reckless help they're providing?
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