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You and your friend sell lemonade. You get 1/3 of the total money. Your friend gets $20 less than the total amount collected. Write a system and solve to find how much each of you made.
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You and your friend sell lemonade. You get 1/3 of the total money. Your friend gets $20 less than the total amount collected. Write a system and solve to find how much each of you made.

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If your friend made $20 dollars they made 2/3 of the money, and you got 1/3 of the total money then that means you made $10 dollars.
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