SOLUTION: Tina puts only PhP 2 and PhP 5 coins in her alkansya. When she opened it, she found out there were 17 less than twice the number of PhP5 coins than the PhP2 coins. This gave her a

Question 1127967: Tina puts only PhP 2 and PhP 5 coins in her alkansya. When she opened it, she found out there were 17 less than twice the number of PhP5 coins than the PhP2 coins. This gave her a total of PhP227. How many coins of each type did she give?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c, how many are of Ph2
2c-17, how many are of Ph5

26 of Ph2
35 of Ph5
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