Quentin deposited an amount of money into each of two new...

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Quentin deposited an amount of money into each of two new investments, X and Y. Investment X pays

x\%

simple annual interest, and investment Y pays

y\%

simple annual interest. After 1 year, the total interest earned was

7.6\%

of the total investment. If

x

and

y

are consecutive positive integers, in that order, what fraction of the total amount was deposited into investment X?

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A

\frac{1}{5}

B

\frac{1}{3}

C

\frac{2}{5}

D

\frac{3}{5}

E

\frac{2}{3}

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