SOLUTION: Lena invested her savings in two investment funds. The amount she invested in Fund A was $8000 less than the amount she invested in Fund B. Fund A returned a 3% profit and

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Question 1120983: Lena invested her savings in two investment funds. The amount she invested in Fund A was
$8000
less than the amount she invested in Fund B. Fund A returned a
3%
profit and Fund B returned a
7%
profit. How much did she invest in Fund B, if the total profit from the two funds together was
$1960
?

Answer by ikleyn(52799)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Let x = "How much did she invest in Fund B".


Then the amount she invested in fund A was (x-8000) dollars.


Fund A returned 0.03*(x-8000) dollars.


Fund B returned 0.07*x dollars.


According to the condition, 


    0.03*(x-8000) + 0.07x = 1960.


Simplify and solve for x.


    0.03x - 0.03*8000 + 0.07x = 1960

    0.1x = 1960 + 240 

    0.1x = 2200    ====>  x =  = 22000.


Answer.  $22000 was invested in fund B.


Check.   0.03*(22000 - 8000) + 0.07*22000 = 1960  dollars.   ! Correct !

Solved.

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It is a typical and standard problem on investment.

If you want to learn on how to solve such problems on your own,  look into the lesson
    - Using systems of equations to solve problems on investment
in this site.

You will find there different approaches  (using one equation or a system of two equations in two unknowns),  as well as
different methods of solution to the equations  (Substitution,  Elimination).

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-I in this site
    - ALGEBRA-I - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lesson is the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Systems of two linear equations in two unknowns".


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