Chapter 6.4, Problem 47E

To determine

To calculate: The amount he should overdraw from each bank to avoid investigation by the Ethics Committee and overdraw his account at integrity by as much as his sense of guilt will allow where Pokbarrel habitually overdraws his 3 bank accounts at the Congressional Integrity Bank, Citizen’s Trust and Checks R Us, and there are no penalties because the overdrafts are subsidized by the taxpayer, at the moment a total overdraft of up to $\$10,000$ will be over looked and his conscience makes him hesitate to overdraw the accounts at banks whose names include the expressions “integrity” and “trust”, and the effect is that his overdrafts at the first two banks combined amount to no more than one quarter of the total and on the other hand the senate banking committee suggests that he overdraw at least $\$2,500$ from their bank.