SOLUTION: You have 52 coins consisting of nickels and half-dollars. The number of half-dollars is 2 less than twice the number of nickels. How many half-dollars do you have? How many nick

Question 330088: You have 52 coins consisting of nickels and half-dollars. The number of half-dollars is 2 less than twice the number of nickels.
How many half-dollars do you have?
How many nickels do you have?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of half dollars, the number of nickels.
1.
2.
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,

Then from eq. 2,

.
.
.
34 half dollars and 18 nickels.
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