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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

User Joy Lab
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Answer:

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.

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