Rita and Marley are each opening a checking account. Rita’s initial deposit is $200, and Marley’s is $300. Rita will make weekly deposits of $20. Marley will make weekly withdrawals of $5. Write and solve an equation to find the number of weeks after which Rita’s and Marley’s account balances will be equal.

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To answer this question you will set up each person's situation as an expression and make them equal to each other.

After that, you will solve for the number of weeks. Both expressions will have a number of weeks.

The answer is in 4 weeks.

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