Correct answer: . 

Any other answer deserves to be thrown in the GARBAGE, which includes an equation by a person who responded to your math problem.

Let me show it to you:  <====== GARBAGE



Let the original amount be A

Then after spending $288, he had A - 288 remaining

After spending  of the remaining (A - 288), he had 

Now, since in the end he had  of the original amount remaining, we can say that: 



16A = 5(5)(A - 288) -------- Cross-multiplying

16A = 25A - 25(288)

16A - 25A = - 25(288)

- 9A = - 25(288)

A, or amount he initially had was:  

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