SOLUTION: Constance has $0.71 in pennies and dimes. The number of pennies exceeds four times the number of dimes by 1. Find the number she has of each kind.

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Question 377639: Constance has $0.71 in pennies and dimes. The number of pennies exceeds four times the number of dimes by 1. Find the number she has of each kind.
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1.
2.
Substitute eq. 2 into eq. 1,




Then from eq. 2,



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