Question

3 Justin earned $25.67 one week and $37.85 the nextweek. He also purchased a DVD for $19.99 and gas forhis car for $22.07. He started with a zero balance in hischecking accourft. Justin recorded all of thesetransactions in his checkbook and ended up with abalance of $105.58. Was his balance correct? If it was,write an equation to support the answer. If not find thecorrect balance

Answer 1

To check if his balance was correct we first need to find his actual balance. To find it we need to add the total amount he earned and subtract the amount he spent.

`\begin{gathered} \text{ballance}=37.85+25.67-19.99-22.07 \\ \text{ballance}=21.46 \end{gathered}`

Justin correct ballance is $21.46 he was incorrect.