SOLUTION: Five college students formed the collegiate cleaning service to warn money during the summer months. The student leader was to recieve $640 more than each of the other four student
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Question 13216: Five college students formed the collegiate cleaning service to warn money during the summer months. The student leader was to recieve $640 more than each of the other four students. If he students earned a total of $5,640 for the summer, what were the earnings of the student leader?? Answer by akmb1215(68) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Think of each person earning the same amount of money, but the student leader gets $640 more. Since there are 5 people, your equation will be: . To solve this, move the 640 to the right side of the equal sign to get . Then, divide to get 1000. EAch person gets $1000, but the student leader gets $640 more, which gives him $1640.
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