Three friends, Ben, Keisha, and Stanley, earned an average of $40,000 each for their work on a political campaign. Their total earnings were exactly 60% of the total earnings of everyone who worked on the campaign. How much were the total earnings of all of the campaign workers?

The ACT Mathematics Test contains 60 questions to be answered in 60 minutes.  The hardest ACT math questions (the last 10 to 15 questions) fall into two types: advanced concepts and complex questions. Advanced concepts questions cover what you learn in precalculus and trigonometry. FYI: Students that get into Harvard College have an ACT score of 34–36.