Michael paid $1,485.00 for 3 identical pairs of shoes and 2 identical watches. Each watch costs 3 times as much as each pair of shoes His brother Larry paid $415.00 for 1 pair of the same shoes as Michael plus a leather belt calculate the cost of the leather belt

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step-by-step explanation:

if the four friends split the cost, p, of the pizza evenly, then each friend pays one-fourth of the cost of the pizza.

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!