SOLUTION: Joanne has a total of $5000 deposited into two accounts. One account earns 5% interest and one account earns 4% interest. If the two accounts earn a total of $215, how much was dep

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Question 989391: Joanne has a total of $5000 deposited into two accounts. One account earns 5% interest and one account earns 4% interest. If the two accounts earn a total of $215, how much was deposited into each account?
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A person has currency units invested in 2 accounts. One account earns percent interest, and the other account earns percent interest. The two accounts earn a total of currency units interest in one year. How much is invested in each account?

Let be the amount invested at percent. Then the amount invested at percent is , and:



Solve for , then calculate

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