SOLUTION: Blessing and Andrew formed a company and agreed that their annual profit will be shared in the ratio 4:5 respectively. If at the end of the year, Andrew received $5000 more than bl

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Question 1163459: Blessing and Andrew formed a company and agreed that their annual profit will be shared in the ratio 4:5 respectively. If at the end of the year, Andrew received $5000 more than blessing, how Much was blessing share
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Given the ratio 4:5, let Blessing's share be 4x and Andrew's share be 5x.

That's one standard way to start solving a problem when a ratio is given.

Then the difference between their shares is 5x-4x = x.

But the difference in their shares was $5000; so x=$5000.

Then Andrew's share was 5x = $25,000 and Blessing's share was 4x = $20,000.

ANSWER: Blessing's share was $20,000.