Retirement tax questions

I am confused.  You said: "...I reported $5,500 of a non-deductable traditional IRA contribution, but after filing, I accidentally put $2,500 into a roth IRA..."

That totals $5,500 + $2,500 = $8,000.   

Do you mean that you actually only contributed $3,000 to the Traditional IRA and then $2,500 to the Roth subsequently recharactorized to the Traditional RA?
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