SOLUTION: an inheritance of $900000 is to be divided among Maria, Lorna and Fe in the following manner: Lorna is to receive 3/5 of what Maria while Fe gets 1/2 of what Maria gets. How much d

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Question 663153: an inheritance of $900000 is to be divided among Maria, Lorna and Fe in the following manner: Lorna is to receive 3/5 of what Maria while Fe gets 1/2 of what Maria gets. How much does each receive
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The fractions of the $900K that each gets
add up to
Let = Maria's fraction
Let = Lorna's fraction
Let = Fe's fraction
-----------------------
given:



By substitution:




and



and



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Maria receives
Lorna receives
Fe receives
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check:
Lorna is to receive 3/5 of what Maria gets


Fe gets 1/2 of what Maria gets


and


I'm off by .02 due to rounding off of my calculator, I guess

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