Question

Your weekly paycheck is 20 percent less than your coworker's. Your two paychecks total 670. Find the

amount of each paycheck.
us
and yours is
Your coworker's is :
Given your answers to the nearest cent

Answer 1

Yours paycheck is 297.78. Your coworkers is 372.22

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent your paycheck and y represent coworkers paycheck.

Your paycheck is 20% less than your coworker so we can represent this as

`0.8y = x`

and We also know that

`x + y = 670`

We subsitue y for x.

`0.8y + y = 670`

`1.8y = 670`

`y = 372.22`

So your coworker paycheck is 372.22.

Plug this back in to either equation, to solve for x.

`372.22 + x = 670`

`x = 297.78`

So our paycheck is 297.78.