We know that Ava is paying $2 dollars per week so if L is the money that she owes and t is the number of weeks, and I is the initial debt so we can write an equation like:
[tex]L=I-2t[/tex]Now we can replace the info we have to find the value of I so:
[tex]10=I-2(5)[/tex]and we solve for I
[tex]\begin{gathered} I=10+10 \\ I=20 \end{gathered}[/tex]So the final equation will be:
[tex]L=20-2t[/tex]