Question 1166992: A business earn a profit of Rs.37,000 which has to divide among three friends such that ratio of second friend is 1/4 of the third friend and the ratio between the first and the third friend is 3 : 5. How much each friends get from the profit amount
Answer by Theo(13342)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! let x, y, z equal the amount of money that each friend has.
x represents the money that the first friend has.
y represents the money that the second friend has.
z represents the money that the third friend has.
your equation is:
3/5 * z + 1/4 * z + z = 37000
multiply both sides of this equation by 20 to get:
12 * z + 5 * z + 20 * z = 37000 * 20
combine like terms to get:
37 * z = 37000 * 20
divide both sides of the equation by 37 to get:
z = 1000 * 20 = 20,000.
you have:
z = 20,000
x = 3/5 * z = 3/5 * 20,000 = 12,000
y = 1/4 * z = 1/4 * 20,000 = 5,000
x + y + z = 12,000 + 5,000 + 20,000 = 37,000
your solution is:
first friend gets 12,000.
second friend gets 5,000
third friend gets 20,000
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