SOLUTION: if the total amount of money you had to invest was $5000 and you deposit x amount in one investment how can you represent the remaining amount in dollars?

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Question 1015787: if the total amount of money you had to invest was $5000 and you deposit x amount in one investment how can you represent the remaining amount in dollars?
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, fractalier:
Answer by stanbon(75887)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if the total amount of money you had to invest was $5000 and you deposit x amount in one investment how can you represent the remaining amount in dollars?
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Ans:: 5000-x
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by fractalier(6550)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If it were $1000 put into one account you would have $4000 left.
If you put $2000 away, you'd have $3000 left.
No matter how much you put away, you have to subtract that from $5000 to see what's left...therefore, if you put x dollars away, you would have
$5000 - x dollars left.

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