SOLUTION: A youth organization collect nickels and dimes for a charity drive. By the end of the one-day drive, the youth had collected $36.25. If there were two times as many dimes as nickel

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Question 497421: A youth organization collect nickels and dimes for a charity drive. By the end of the one-day drive, the youth had collected $36.25. If there were two times as many dimes as nickels, how many of each type of coin was collected.
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of nickels
Let = number of dimes
given:
(1)
(2) (in cents)
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By substitution,
(2)
(2)
(2)
and, since,
(1)
(1)
(1)
The number of nickels is 145
The number of dimes is 290
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check:
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
OK

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