SOLUTION: Person A and B share an amount of money. B receives 150 more than A. What is the original amount?

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Question 638794: Person A and B share an amount of money. B receives 150 more than A. What is the original amount?
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Let represent A's amount. Then must be the amount B got. So the original amount must have been . That's as far as you can go with this problem without more information.

John

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