SOLUTION: At a local restaurant, $287 in tips is to be shared between the server, bartender, and busboy. The server gets $21 more than three times the amount the busboy receives. The bartend
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Question 581443: At a local restaurant, $287 in tips is to be shared between the server, bartender, and busboy. The server gets $21 more than three times the amount the busboy receives. The bartender gets $51 more than the amount the busboy receives. How much will the server receive? Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! bb=x=$43
bt=x+51=$94
s=3x+21=$150
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x+x+51+3x+21=287
5x+72=287
5x=287-72
5x=215
x=215/5
x=43
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