Problema Solution

Ms.Brown invested $20,000 in two accounts, one yeilding 5% and the other yeilding 11%. If she received a total of $1,480 at the end of the year how much did she invest in each account?

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let she invested x in account 1 and y in account 2

x +y = 20,000

0.05x+ 0.11*y= 1480

solving two eq

x = 12000

y = 8000