Question

You made two deposits to your bank account this month. One deposit was $24.61 and the second deposit was $16.49. Your balance at the end of the month is $73.31 and you made no withdraws. Write and evaluate an expressions for your balance at the beginning of the month subject:(subtracting rational numbers)

Answer 1

Let's denote your original balance (at the beginning of the month) is x.

After depositing twice (24.61$ and 16.49$), you got 73.31$ as the amount of total money in your account.

=> x + 24.61 + 16.49 = 73.31

=> x = 73.31 - 24.61 - 15.49

=> x = 33.21$