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19 January, 17:18

In a recent year a baseball team paid six times as much to their ace pitcher as they paid to their shortstop. If they paid $56 million for the two salaries, what did they pay each player

What was the pitcher's salary? S

(millions of dollars)

What was the shortstop's salary?

(millions of dollars)

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  1. 19 January, 19:44
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    pitcher: $48 million shortstop: $8 million

    Step-by-step explanation:

    The ratio of salaries can be written as ...

    short : pitcher = 1 : 6

    Then the fraction of the total that the shortstop received is ...

    short : total = 1 : (1+6) = 1 : 7

    The shortstop's salary was (1/7) * ($56 million) = $8 million.

    The pitcher's salary was 6 times that, so 6 * ($8 million) = $48 million.

    The pitcher's salary was $48 million; the shortstop's, $8 million.
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