Answer:
Alice - £124.62
Bernice - £290.77
Carol - £184.62
Explanation:
Let the amount of money Alice has be a. This way, the sentence "The ratio of Alice’s money to Bernice’s money is 3:7." can be translated into a proportion:
Alice's money / Bernice's money = 3 / 7
We can substitute Alice's money with a, and cross multiply and solve for Bernice's money:
a / Bernice's money = 3 / 7
7a = 3(Bernice's money)
Bernice's money = 7/3 a
Now, we can represent Carol's money in terms of Alice's money, she has 60 more, or a + 60. We can create can equation to represent the total:
Alice's money + Bernice's money + Carol's money = total
We can plug in what we have and solve for a:
a + 7/3 a + a + 60 = 600
13/3 a = 540
a = 124.62
This means Alice has £124.62
Bernice has 7/3 a amount of money, so we can substitute the value of a to get Bernice has 7/3 (124.62), or £290.77
We can do the same for Carol who has 60 more, 124.62 + 60 is £184.62