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Miss Myers paid $3600 all together for the equipment furniture and decorations in a restaurant equipment cost $500 more than the furniture the cost of the furniture was twice as much is the cost of the decorations how much did equipment cost

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Answer:1740, 1240, 620Step-by-step explanation:Here we need to put this data in equations. Let's call E the expenditure in equipment, F the expenditure in furniture and D the expenditure in decoration.As all of them cost 3600 we can write it as:E+F+D=3600 (equation 1)As equipment cost 500 dollars more than furniture, we can write:F+500=E (equation 2)And as furniture cost twice as decoration:F=2D (equation 3)We need now to leave equation 1 depending on only one variable. In equation 1, let's replace E by its value given by eq.2 and replace F by its value given from eq.3:(F+500) + 2D + D = 3600Now, let's replace the F of the first term by the value given by eq. 3:(2D +500) + 2D + D = 36005D + 500 = 36005D = 3100D = 3100/5D=620So, use eq. 3 to find F:F=2D=1240Use eq. 2 to find E:E=F + 500= 1240+500= 1740And these are the values.