If you share the costs of a meal on the ratio of 2:3 and one person pays £52.20 how much was the whole meal?

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Jonah Williamson

Mathematics

22 October, 04:34

If you share the costs of a meal on the ratio of 2:3 and one person pays £52.20 how much was the whole meal?

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Skinner · Answer 1

The ratio of shared costs of mean=2:3.

One person paid the cost £52.20, so let the other person paid the cost be X.

(2/3) = (52.20/X)

X = (52.20*3) / 2

X=26.10*3

X=78.30

So the gross cost paid by both the person = £ (78.30+52.20)

⇒£130.60