Bud makes $400 more per month than maxine If their total income is $3600 how much does bud earn per

Bud makes $400 more per month than maxine If their total income is $3600 how much does bud earn per month

Let Bud's earnings be b.
Let Maxine's earnings be m.

We're given two equations:

1. b = m + 400
2. b + m = 3600

To solve this system of equations, we substitute equation (1) into equation (2) for b
m + 400 + m = 3600

To solve this equation for m, we type it in our search engine and we get:
m = 1600

To solve for b, we substitute m = 1600 into equation (1) above:
b = 1600 + 400
b = 2200