SOLUTION: You unevenly split 7200$ into two accounts paying 8% and 10% annual interest. At the end of the year, the accounts earn the same interest. Set up and solve a System of Linear Equas

Question 1076879: You unevenly split 7200$ into two accounts paying 8% and 10% annual interest. At the end of the year, the accounts earn the same interest. Set up and solve a System of Linear Equasions to find out how much invested. (I need two equasions one being x + y = 7200 and the other being something else that lets me solve using SoLE addition or substitution
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How much invested IN EACH ACCOUNT

x and y, each amount

A small simplification of the system is this:

and you can solve it.
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