SOLUTION: Two fifth of the coins are dimes. Half of the coins are pennies. The rest are nickles. What is the total value of the coins?

Question 214256: Two fifth of the coins are dimes. Half of the coins are pennies. The rest are nickles. What is the total value of the coins?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Depends. How many total coins are there? You did not share the entire problem.

If there were 100 coins, you would have 40 dimes for $4.00, 50 pennies for $0.50, and 10 nickels for $0.50 making a total of $5.00, but if you only had 50 coins you would have 20 dimes for $2.00, 25 pennies for $0.25, and 5 nickels for $0.25 making a total of $2.50.

That's only two examples out of an infinite number of possibilities.

John

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