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| Question 1082675:  A $128,000 trust is to be invested in bonds paying 9%, CDs paying 8%, and mortgages paying 10%. The sum of the bond and CD investment must equal the mortgage investment. To earn an $11,980 annual income from the investments, how much should the bank invest in bonds?
 Answer by Theo(13342)
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You can put this solution on YOUR website! total investment is 128,000. 
 it is invested in bonds paying 9%, CEDs paying 8% and mortgages paying 10%.
 
 the sum of the bond and CD investments must equal mortgage investment.
 
 let b equal the amount invested in bonds.
 let c equal the amount invested in CDs.
 let d equal the amount invested in mortgages.
 
 total investment is 128,000
 
 b + c + d = 128,000
 
 total income per year is equal to 11,980.
 
 .09b + .08c + .10d = 11,980
 
 you have 2 equations that need to be solved simultaneously.
 
 they are:
 
 b + c + d = 128,000
 .09b + .08c + .10d = 11,980
 
 you are given that the sum of the bond and CD investment must be equal to the mortgage investment.
 
 b + c = d
 
 in the 2 equations that need to be solved simultaneously, replace d with b + d to get:
 
 b + c + b + c = 128,000
 .09b + .08c + .10(b + c) = 11,980
 
 simplify to get:
 
 b + c + b + c = 128,000
 .09b + .08c + .10b + .10c = 11,980
 
 combine like terms to get:
 
 2b + 2c = 128,000
 .19b + .18c = 11,980
 
 you have now reduced the number of variables to 2 in 2 equations which can be solved.
 
 this can be solved in various ways.
 we'll use elimination.
 
 multiply both sides of second equation by (2/.19) and leave the first equation as is to get:
 
 2b + 2c = 128,000
 2b + 1.894736842c = 126,105.2632
 
 subtract the second equation from the first to get:
 
 .1052631579c = 1894.736842
 
 solve for c to get c = 1894.736841 / .1052631579 = 18,000
 
 2c is therefore equal to 36,000
 
 in the equation of 2b + 2c = 128,000, replace 2c with 36,000 to get:
 
 2b + 36,000 = 128,000
 
 solve for b to get:
 
 b = (128,000 - 36,000) / 2.
 
 this makes b = 46,000.
 
 in the equation of b + c + d = 128,000, solve for d to get:
 
 d = 128,000 - 18,000 - 46,000.
 
 this makes d = 64,000
 
 you have:
 
 b = 46,000
 c = 18,000
 d = 64,000
 
 b + c + d is now equal to 46,000 + 18,000 + 64,000 = 128,000
 
 .09b + .08c + .10d is now equal to .09*46,000 + .08*18,000 + .10*64,000.
 
 this becomes equal to 4140 + 1440 + 6400 which is equal to 11,980.
 
 the amount invested in bonds and cd's is 18,000 + 46,000 = 64,000 which is equal to the amount invested in mortgages.
 
 all the requirements of the problem are satisfied, so the solution looks good.
 
 
 
 
 
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