Question 337606: To celebrate colleague’s graduation, the m coworkers in an office agreed to contribute equally to a catered lunch that costs a total of y dollars. If p of the coworkers fail to contribute, which of the following represents the additional amount, in dollars, that each of the remaining coworkers must contribute to pay for the lunch?
(A) y/m (B) y/ (m-p) (C) py/(m-p) (D) y(m-p)/m (E) py/m(m-p)
Answer by nyc_function(2741)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Each coworker should contribute y/m dollars. If you multiply that by p (py/m), you get the total dollar amount that should have been contributed by p coworkers. The contributing coworkers (m - p), must split that amount. So, the answer is py/m(m-p) (E).
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