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GED Math 4.5 Rational Numbers. How much did Dez deposit into her savings account?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by bank accounts where even a

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gymnast might have trouble maintaining her balance For every nine

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bucks that dez deposits in her checking account Every days

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from bachelor ette she deposits two bucks in her savings

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account If dez deposited a total of eight hundred twenty

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five bucks in both her checking and savings accounts last

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week than how much did she deposit into her savings

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account And here the potential answers All right well sounds

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like dad's really wants to go on that mediterranean cruise

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in the fall way to pinch those pennies Dez All

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right so this questions asking us how much money does

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put into her savings at camp We know she put

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away two dollars every time he made a deposit But

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we don't know how many total deposit she made so

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we'll have to dig a little deeper here Each time

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does made a deposit you put nine dollars into checking

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in two dollars into savings that we call the number

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of deposits acts Then we can set the equation Nine

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x plus two ax equals eight hundred twenty five If

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you don't get that part boy you're in trouble on

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this question Votes howmany times times dollars Got it Except

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got a couple of like terms on our hands Woo

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hoo So we can add nynex and two Acts to

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get 11 axe And now eleven x equals eight hundred

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twenty five Guess what we have to do here Yep

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You guessed it Divide both sides by eleven and x

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equals seventy five Got eleven and twenty five Seventy five

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But wait There's No seventy five dollar option Did we

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do something wrong No but we're not quite finished We've

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only found the number of deposits are x value Last

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step We need to plug that into our two ex

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term and two times seventy five one hundred fifty Which

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means that dez has deposited a total of one Hundred

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fifty bucks into her savings account Option A Unfortunately that

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will only get her as far as bermuda I'll keep 00:01:54.158 --> [endTime] pinching Dez malta awaits

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