SOLUTION: A group of three friends ate dinner at a restaurant when they settled they check peter paid 4/5 as much as jhon paid and john paid 1/3 as much as raplph paid what fractions of the

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Question 903738: A group of three friends ate dinner at a restaurant when they settled they check peter paid 4/5 as much as jhon paid and john paid 1/3 as much as raplph paid what fractions of the cheeck did john pay?
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, MathTherapy:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source):
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p, j, r, the fractions that each paid.
, the whole check.

and , from the description

Both the last two equations have j in them.
..., and ;

The question asks to find r.

Answer by MathTherapy(10552) (Show Source):
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A group of three friends ate dinner at a restaurant when they settled they check peter paid 4/5 as much as jhon paid and john paid 1/3 as much as raplph paid what fractions of the cheeck did john pay?

Let fraction John paid, be J
Then Peter paid: , or
Ralph paid 3J
Amount of check = , or , or
Fraction of check that John paid: , or , or , or