Hint
It doesn't actually matter how many men or women there were.
Answer
17,760 dollars.
If there were M men, then there were (3552 − M) women.
So one ninth of the men each received 45 dollars and one twelve of the women each received 60 dollars. So the total received was:
= 45 x 1 x M + 60 x 1 x (3552 − M)
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9 12
Simplify the two fractions by dividing the 45 by 9, and the 60 by 12 respectively.
= 5 x M + 5 x (3552 − M)
= 5M + 17760 − 5M
= 17760
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Puzzle 346
If cat and a half can catch a mouse and a half in a day and a half how many mice can 3 cats catch in 3 days?
Take a word from the first column, and a word from the second column.
You will now have 6 lots of eight letters, and each of these eight letters is an anagram of something that lives in water.
dish leek
tray shoe
raft sign
cram golf
ears fern
loud hiss
