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Ms.Nguyen needs to separate $385 into three parts to pay some depts. The second part must be five times as large as the first part. The third part must be $35 more than the first part. How much money must be in each part?

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Ok so u divid 385 by 3 then ur answer is 128 so divided that again and its 42 so divid again by 3 is 14x5=70 so 70 is the second part and the first part is about 14 them the 3rd part is about 105
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