SOLUTION: Dan opened up his piggy bank and found a total of 35 coins - nickels, dimes, quarters. He has 5 more nickels than dimes and a total of $6. How many of each coin were in his bank?

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Question 1050005: Dan opened up his piggy bank and found a total of 35 coins - nickels, dimes, quarters. He has 5 more nickels than dimes and a total of $6. How many of each coin were in his bank?
dimes = d
nickels = d+5
quarters = 35-d-(d+5)
I know it is .05(d+5); .10d; I think the quarters is .25(35-2d-5),
I know the sum of all 3 coins = $6
I know to multiply by 100 to get rid of the decimals
but I'm not getting it to come out correctly.
thanks for your help!
Found 3 solutions by josmiceli, advanced_Learner, ikleyn:
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of nickels
Let = the number of dimes
Let = the number of quarters
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(1)
(2)
(3)
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(2)
(2)
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(2)
(2)
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(1)
(1)
Multiply this result by
and subtract (2) from (1)
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(1)
(2)
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and
(3)
(3)
(3)
and
(1)
(1)
(1)
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There are 10 nickels, 5 dimes, 20 quarters
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(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
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I like to use a different variable for each
type of coin. All through the calculations,
I am sure of what I am looking at. Then, at the
end I can put the results all in terms of either
, , or

Answer by advanced_Learner(501)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
your equations are
1.
2.
3.


simplify





Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE linear system by SUBSTITUTION
Solve:
We'll use substitution. After moving 1*Q to the right, we get:
, or . Substitute that
into another equation:
and simplify: So, we know that Q=20. Since , D=5.

Answer: .
Answer by ikleyn(52794)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Dan opened up his piggy bank and found a total of 35 coins - nickels, dimes, quarters.
He has 5 more nickels than dimes and a total of $6. How many of each coin were in his bank?
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Let "d" be the number of dimes.
Then the number of nickels is d+5, according to the condition.
Then the number of quarters is (35 - d - (d+5)) = 35 - 2d -5 = 30 - 2d.

Nickels contribute 5*(d+5) cents to the total.
Dimes contribute 10d cents to the total.
Quarters contribute 25*(30-2d) cents to the total.

An equation for the total is

5*(d+5) + 10d + 25*(30-2d) = 600 cents.

Simplify it:

5d + 25 + 10d + 750 - 50d = 600,

5d + 10d - 50d = 600 - 25 - 750,

-35d = -175  --->  d =  = 5.

There were 5 dimes.

Now you find all remaining unknowns.

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