Problema Solution
IN a recent year a baseball team paid four times as much to their ace pitcher as they paid to their shortstop. If they paid $ten million for the two salaries, what did they pay each player?
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Let 's' represent the shortstop, then '4s' represents the ace pitcher. ten million can be expressed in millions as 10:
10=s+4s
s=2
4*2=8
So the shortstop was paid $2 million and the ace pitcher was paid $8 million.