SOLUTION: the cash box for the school play contains 233$ in 2$ coins and 5$ bills. how many coins and how many bills are there if the total of coins and bills is 61?
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Question 312883: the cash box for the school play contains 233$ in 2$ coins and 5$ bills. how many coins and how many bills are there if the total of coins and bills is 61?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of $2 coins. Since there are 61 coins and bills, 
represents the number of $5 bills.
The value of $2 coins is 
dollars. The value of $5 bills is )
dollars. We know there are $233 altogether, so:
\ =\ 233)
Just solve for for the number of coins and subtract that from 61 for the number of bills.
John
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