SOLUTION: You have 15 bills in your pocket you only have five dollar and $10 bills the combined value of the bills is $100 write and solve a system of equations to represent the scenario.I t

Question 1134552: You have 15 bills in your pocket you only have five dollar and $10 bills the combined value of the bills is $100 write and solve a system of equations to represent the scenario.I tried doing it in the form of Y=mx+b and then I isolated the y’s in the x’s and then when that still didn’t help me I tried to plug in 15 for Y and X in both equations and honestly I confused myself more
Answer by josgarithmetic(39618) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
x of the five dollar bills
y of the ten-dollar bills
---------first equation is for coin counts and second equation is for amount of money in dollars.

Simplify the money equation.

System of Equations should be:

Use Elimination for part of the solution.
Subtract first equation from second equation.....
------------the ten-dollar bills
therefore ---------the five-dollar bills
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