SOLUTION: 1. Pete's salary is twice joe's salary. mark's salary is $200 less than joe's salary. Andy's salary is the same as Joe's. the total of their salaries is $1825. Find each persons sa

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Question 1167165: 1. Pete's salary is twice joe's salary. mark's salary is $200 less than joe's salary. Andy's salary is the same as Joe's. the total of their salaries is $1825. Find each persons salary.
2. I have 4 numbers. the first number is 5 more than twice the fourth number. the second number is 5 less than 3 times the fourth number. the third number is -5 times the fourth number. the sum of the 4 numbers is negative 1. Find the 4 numbers
Answer by ikleyn(52817) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let x be the Joe' salary.  Then


    2x is the Pete' salary

    (x-200)  is the Mark' salary

    x is the Andy' salary


The total salary equation is


    x + 2x + (x-200) + x = 1825.


You do the rest.

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