Can known and unknown numbers be on the same side of the equal sign?

Imogene invested $8,000 in a bank account that pays 8 percent simple interest at the end of each year. her friend invested the same amount in stocks where the growth of the investment is represented as 2,000 times the square root of 2 less than the time lapsed in years. if y1 and y2 represent the amount earned in dollars and t is the time lapsed in years, which system of equations correctly represents the situation?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.

Leslie started last week with $1200 in her checking account. during the week, she wrote the checks below. trans typ./ check no. date description of transaction payment/ debit deposit/ credit (+) balance 1,200 00 324 10/6 miller's food market 45.87 45 87 groceries 1,154 13 325 10/7 cyber center computer outlet 218.59 218 59 monitor 935 54 326 10/9 sandy's beauty salon 30.00 30 00 haircut and styling 900 59 deposit 10/10 paycheck 621.33 621 33 1,621 92 evaluate leslie's check register. a. leslie did a good job. everything is correct. b. the final balance is wrong; she did not add everything correctly. c. leslie should have written debit instead of deposit for the transaction type. d. leslie switched the debit and credit columns.