Question

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The average yearly salary of a lawyer is $20 thousand less than twice that of an architect. Combined, an architect and a lawyer earn $211 thousand. Find the average yearly salary of an architect and a lawyer

What is the average yearly salary of an architect?

What is the average yearly salary of a lawyer?

Answer 1

Architect salary be x and lawyer's salary be 2x-20

Now

• x+2x-20=211
• 3x-20=211
• 3x=231
• x=$77K
• 2x-20=$134K

Answer 2

Let x be the yearly salary of an architect. Then the yearly salary of a lawyer is 2x-20000.

We can build an equation now! x+(2x-20000)=211000, because the yearly salary of an architect plus the yearly salary of a lawyer is 211000.

We combine like terms to get 3x-20000=211000.

We add 20000 to both sides to get 3x=231000.

We divide both sides by 3 to get x=77000, so the average yearly salary of a lawyer is 77000.

Then, the average yearly salary of an architect is 2(77000)-20000=154000-20000=134000, so the average yearly salary of an architect is 134000.