Two boys divided $3.36 so that one boy received 12 cents less than three times as much as the other. How was the money divided?
2 answers
x + (3x - 0.12) = 3.36
So one boy had x and the other one had 3x-0.12. The sum of these two is 3.36. So solve the equation 3.36 = x + (3x - 0.12)