SOLUTION: A customer purchased a car and financed $15,000. The customer borrowed part of the money from a bank charging 10% annual interest and the rest from a credit union at 9% annual inte

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Question 729591: A customer purchased a car and financed $15,000. The customer borrowed part of the money from a bank charging 10% annual interest and the rest from a credit union at 9% annual interest. If the total interest fro the year was $1430, how much was borrowed from the credit union?
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A customer purchased a car and financed $15,000. The customer borrowed part of the money from a bank
charging 10% annual interest and the rest from a credit union at 9% annual interest.
If the total interest from the year was $1430, how much was borrowed from the credit union?
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Let x be the amount borrowed from the credit union at 9% in dollars (the value under the problem's question).

Then the value borrowed from the bank at 10% is (15000-x) dollars.


Write an equation for the total annual interest

    0.09x + 0.1(15000-x) = 1430  dollars.    (1)


Simplify

    0.09x + 1500 - 0.1x = 1430,

    -0.09x - 0.1x = 1430 - 1500,

          -0.01x  =   -70,

               x  =  %28-70%29%2F%28-0.01%29 = 7000.


Thus, 7000 dollars were borrowed from the credit union.


ANSWER.  $7000 were borrowed from the credit union.


CHECK.  The total annual interest is  0.09%2A7000+%2B+%2815000-7000%29%2A0.1 = 1430  dollars,   correct !

Solved.