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prealgebra intermediate
Problem
The four partners in a business decide to split the profits of their company in the ratio 2:3:3:5. If the profit one year is \26,\!000$ what is the largest number of dollars received by any of the four partners?
Solution
You can think of the money being split into parts, and each partner getting his corresponding number of parts as his share. That makes for a total of 13 parts, meaning that each part consists of \2,\!000,5\cdot 2,\!000 = \boxed{10,\!000}$.
Final answer
10,\!000