How much simple interest would be earned on a certificate of deposit worth $2,000 over a period of 5 years with an interest rate of 2%?

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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.

Rewrite the equation x = 65 - 60p by factoring the side that contains the variable p.