SOLUTION: 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

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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?
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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.