SOLUTION: What equation do i use to solve the following problem?: Andy has 30 coins made up of quarters and half dollars, and their total value is $12.25. How may quarters does he have?

Question 346652: What equation do i use to solve the following problem?: Andy has 30 coins made up of quarters and half dollars, and their total value is $12.25. How may quarters does he have?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"Andy has 30 coins made up of quarters and half dollars" means that where 'q' is the number of quarters and 'h' is the number of half dollars.

Also, since "their total value is $12.25", this means that (note: 0.25q is the total amount of money in terms of quarters only and 0.5h is the total amount of money in terms of half dollars only)
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