Barbara,

There is not enough information here to answer the question. How many winners are there? What does the first runner you receive?

Penny

Barbara wrote back

This is the way I received the questions, I think their is only 2 winners, a first place and a runner up, also here are some multiple choice's, I figure that the first place winner wins half of $6000 and the runner up receive 1/4 of $3000 which is half of $6000. I'm not sure.

a. 6.000
b. 8,500
c. 12,000
d. 15,000
e. 18,500

I'm sorry about the question being incomplete.

Barbara,

This is a strange question. If the first place winner receives $6,000 which is 1/2 of the prize money then the total prize money is 2 × $6,000 = $12,000.

Penny