SOLUTION: In Canada, $1 and $2 bills have been replaced by coins. When Marissa returned home to San Fran from a trip to Canada, she found that she had acquired 37 of these coins, with a tota

Question 196511: In Canada, $1 and $2 bills have been replaced by coins. When Marissa returned home to San Fran from a trip to Canada, she found that she had acquired 37 of these coins, with a total value of 51 canadian dollars. How many coins of each denomination did she have?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of $1 coins she has
Let = the number of $2 coins she has
given:

Subtract the 1st equation from the 2nd

And, since

She has 23 $1 coins and 14 $2 coins
check:

OK
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