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You have a total portfolio of $20,000 to either invest in stocks, invest in bonds, or save in a money market. You want to have at least two times more money in stocks than in bonds. You estimate that stocks will provide 2 times more money this year than money markets. Lastly, you want to have $4,000 less in money market than in bonds. How much money will be invested in stocks, bonds and money market?

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This solution reviews how much to invest in each of the given markets by setting up some constraints.

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We will start by setting up some of the constraints that we already know:

Let x be the amount of money in stocks.
Let y be the amount of money in bonds.
Let z be the amount on money in a money market.

We want to have at least two times more in stocks than in bonds so:
(1) x ≥ 2y

The second statement is an estimate of how much you will make, not how ...

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