Question

four employees are cleaning out four different wishing wells at an amusement park. tracy collects $5.80 more than asuka. kyle collects half as much as tracy. Beverly collects 3 times as much as kyle. how much money does each employee collect if the total amount of money collected is $246.20?

Answer 1

Name all the amounts:

A = Asuka's Collection
T = Tracy's Collection
K = Kyle's Collection
B = Beverly's Collection

That was about half the problem solution.

Now, you can translate the problem statement.

"tracy collects $5.80 more than asuka"

T = A + $5.80

"kyle collects half as much as tracy. "

K = T/2

See how that works? You do the other two translations.