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Colin, Dave and Emma share some money.

Colin gets 3⁄10 of the money.
Emma and Dave share the rest of the money in the ratio 3 : 2 What is Dave's share of the money

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Make the amount of money they have £100 because this makes the question easier.

Colin gets 3/10 of the money, so Colin will get £30.

After Colin has taken his share £70 will be left over.

The ratio give is 3 : 2. So 3 + 2 is equal to 5.

The amount of money left over is then divided by the ratio added in this case its 70/5.

70/5 gives us an answer of 14 .

This means that each share is equal to £14.

Emma gets the ratio of 3 so we do 3 x 14 which gives us he answer of £42.

And if we do 3 x 2 we get the answer of £28.

We then know Dave gets £26 pounds from the £100 at the start.

26/100 converted to a percentage is 26%.