SOLUTION: a bank teller has 125 $10 and $5 bills to start a day. If the total value of the bills was $1000, how many $5 bills did the teller have?

Question 335269: a bank teller has 125 $10 and $5 bills to start a day. If the total value of the bills was $1000, how many $5 bills did the teller have?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, lynnlo:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let T be the number of $10 bills, and F be the number of $5 bills.
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Multiply eq. 1 by -5 and add the two equations.

Then from eq. 1,

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75 $10 bills and 50 $5 bills.
Answer by lynnlo(4176) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
THERE ARE 50 $5.00 DOLLAR BILLS
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