Carrie spent 1 4 of her allowance on a shirt, 1 3 of her allowance on a skirt, and $8 on a belt. if she spent $22 in all, how much was carrie's allowance?

  $24

Step-by-step explanation:

If "a" represents the amount of Carrie's allowance, her expenditures are ...

  a/4 + a/3 + 8 = 22

  3a +4a + 96 = 264 . . . . . multiply by 12 to clear fractions

  7a = 168 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . subtract 96, collect terms

  a = 24 . . . . . . divide by 7

Carrie's allowance was $24.

452,489 to the nearest thousand is 452,000