Mr. morris is putting money into a savings account. his initial savings was $200 and he will deposit $15 each month. part a) write an equation to represent mr. morris's total savings. define your variables part b) determine the savings, if mr. morris has saved for 6 months. part c) the morris's 20th anniversary is in 2 years. will mr. morris have saved up enough money for the $500 gift that he would like to buy for mrs. morris in time for their 20th anniversary?

Mr. Morris already had $200.00 in his bank account. Thereafter he started to deposit $15.00 each month.

Now lets say he saved money for 'x' months.

Part A. The equation that can represent Mr. Morri's savings is given by:

Savings after 'x' months is

Here, it can be seen that Mr. Morris had 200 dollars in his bank account now whatever he is depositing each month will be an additional amount in addition to that of $200.00.

So the desired equation for Mr. Morris's savings is .

Part B. Using the previous equation that represents the savings, we can calculate how much Mr. Morris has saved for 6 months.

Since we know that 'x' represents the number of months, we can put x=6 in the equation and we get:

So, Mr. Morris has saved $290.00 after 6 months.

Part C. Now, we need to check if Mr. Morris will have saved $500.00 over the period of 2 years.

There are 12 months in 1 year, so there are months in 2 years.

Plugging x=12 in the equation that represents the savings, we get:

Hence, we can see that he will have saved $560.00 over 2 years. Therefore, Mr Morris can buy the gift of $500.00 for Mrs. Morris for their 20th anniversary.

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