SOLUTION: Your weekly paycheck is 15 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 680. Find the amount of each paycheck. Your coworker's is : and yours is .

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Question 180395: Your weekly paycheck is 15 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 680. Find the amount of each paycheck.
Your coworker's is :
and yours is .

Answer by edjones(8007) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
y=yours
h=his
.
y=.85h
y+h=680
.85h+h=680 substitute .85h for y
1.85h=680
h=367.57
y=312.43
.
Ed