Abusiness owner spend $4,000 for a computer and software for bookkeeping purposes he needs to post the price of the computer and software separately the computer cost 4 times as much as a software what is the cost of the software

Let the cost of the computer be $

and the cost of the software be $

The total cost the business owner incurred was $

This means that,



We were given another information concerning the relationship between cost of the computer and that of the software.

That is, the computer costs 4 times the software.

Mathematically, we express this relation as,



Now, we substitute equation 2 into equation 1 to obtain,



We simplify to get,



Divide both sides by 5.



Simplify to obtain,



Hence the cost of the software is $800