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Question 470682: I need to figure out how to write the problem out because when I tried to do just that it didn't seem to make sense to me. NOTE: Don't solve the problem out or answer it.
"A clerk was asked to change a $10 bill. She returned 9 more dimes than nickels and twenty-one more quarters than dimes. How many coins of each did she return?"

Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
 

Hi,

She returned 9 more dimes than nickels and twenty-one more quarters than dimes

Let x , (x+9), (x+9+21)represent the number of nickels, dimes and quarters reapectively

Question states*** CENTS make sense

5x + 10*(x+9) + 25(x+20) = 1000 CENTS

solve for x in order to determine how many of each there were 

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