After a legal settlement, the client's portion of the award was 3 times as much money as the attorney's portion.

Question

WRITE AND SOLVE a system of equations to obtain desired information. Use Gaussian Elimination.

After a legal settlement, the client's portion of the award was 3 times as much money as the attorney's portion. If the total award was $20,000, how much did the client get?

Answer 1

Let consider  Attornry's portion= x

 

So Client portion = 3x

 

x + 3x = 20,000

 

4x = 20000

 

x=5000

 

so client portion= 3x=3*5000=$,15000

 

 

There is only one equation .

 

No need of system of equation , Gaussian Elimination for this question