Question

Grayson and four of his friends had a car wash to earn extra monney. They split the profits and grayson got an extra $18 to repay his parents. If grayson got $32. how much total money did they split among themselves. Please write in algebraic equation.

Answer 1

Given

Grayson and four of his friends had a car wash to earn extra money & split the profits

grayson got an extra $18 to repay his parents. & grayson got $32.

find out the total money did they split among themselves

To proof

let the total money earned by the five friends = x

grayson got an extra $18

total grayson got $32

the money is divided in the equal parts in each friend =
`(x)/(5)`

now the algebraic equation becomes

32 = 18 +
`(x)/(5)`

(32- 18) 5 =x

by solving the above equation

we get

$70 = total money (x)

money is divided in the equal parts in each friend = $14

Hence proved