Kay has $4,500 to deposit in two different accounts. She will deposit
$2,000 in Account 1, which earns 5% in
annual simple interest. She will
deposit $1,500 in Account 2, which
earns 5.5% interest that is
compounded annually. What will be
the difference of the amounts in both
accounts after 3 years, if no more
deposits or withdrawals are made?

b

step-by-step explanation:

a difference is the result of subtraction. while each of these expressions has subtraction in it, a difference will be the result when subtraction is the last operation applied in the order of operations for the expression. this means subtraction must be outside of the parenthesis. only b has this.

  answer:

  write 548 as 500 + 40 + 8. multiply each addend by 5. then add the three products to get 2,740.