document.write( "Question 334706: Simple word problem. Two business partners agrEe to puch a business for 192000. One must pay 8750 more than 2/3 of what the other will invest? How much ea? Answer key states 109950 and 82050. How r they getting this answer. I am interpreting 2/3 wrong I think. . \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Let represent the amount that one will pay. Then is the amount the other will pay. The sum is the total amount paid.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Solve for to get one amount, then subtract that amount from $192,000 to get the other amount.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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