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

Yours paycheck is 297.78. Your coworkers is 372.22

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

and We also know that

We subsitue y for x.

So your coworker paycheck is 372.22.

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

So our paycheck is 297.78.