SOLUTION: Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charl

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Question 1194873: Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?

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Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) About Me  (Show Source):
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Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car.
Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest.
What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
let c = cost of the car
c - 1%2F4c - 1%2F3c = Charles' share
common denominator is 12
12%2F12 - 3%2F12 - 4%2F12 = 5%2F12 is the fraction Charles paid
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Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?
1%2F3c - 1%2F4c = 1200
get rid of the fractions, mult by 12, cancel the fractions
4c - 3c = 12(1200)
c = $14,400 is the cost of the car

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Three friends, alex,Brenda and charles decided to buy a car. Alex pays 1/4 of the cost, Brenda pays 1/3 of the cost and charles pays the rest. What fraction of the cost does charles pay?
Brenda pays 12000 more than alex. Calculate the cost of the car?
Doesn't that dude realize that the cost of the car CANNOT be $14,400? 
How can it cost that little when Brenda paid 1%2F3 of the cost, which is $12,000 more than the 1%2F4 cost
that Alex paid? Don't these people look at what they're doing and the reckless help they're providing?