SOLUTION: The cash box for the school play contains 233$ in 2$ coins and 5$ bills. How many coins and how manyt bills are there if the total number of coins and bills are 61?

Question 312867: The cash box for the school play contains 233$ in 2$ coins and 5$ bills. How many coins and how manyt bills are there if the total number of coins and bills are 61?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of coins
Let = number of bills
given:
(1)
(2)
Multiply both sides of (1) by and
subtract (1) from (2)
(2)
(1)

and, since

There are 24 coins and 37 bills
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