Question

your bank account balance was 235.24 dollars after two checks were crashed each with the same amount your balance is now -45.58 what was the amount of each of those checks

Answer 1

Let's put the situation in a mathematical form: let x be the amount of each one of the two checks

`235.24-2x=-45.58`

and then we solve the equation for x, to know what was the amount of each of those checks​:

`235.24+45.58=2x`

then:

`2x=280.82`

then we can divide on both sides of the equality by 2 and obtain that:

`x=(280.82)/(2)=140.41\text{ dollars}`