SOLUTION: You have quarters, dimes, and nickels in a jar. There twice as many quarters as nickels. Write an expression for the number of coins in the jar in terms of nickels and dimes.

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Question 335543: You have quarters, dimes, and nickels in a jar. There twice as many quarters as nickels. Write an expression for the number of coins in the jar in terms of nickels and dimes.

Answer by nyc_function(2741)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let:
n = nickles
d = dimes and
c = number of coins:
3n + d = c
We can also say that the number of quarters would be 2n
(2n + n+ d), which simplifies to 3n + d as a binomial.

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