SOLUTION: if you have two different coins for a total of 49 coins, and one type of coin has 13 more than the other how do you go about solving the problem?

SOLUTION: if you have two different coins for a total of 49 coins, and one type of coin has 13 more than the other how do you go about solving the problem?

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Question 717632: if you have two different coins for a total of 49 coins, and one type of coin has 13 more than the other how do you go about solving the problem?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You do not have enough information to solve a problem UNLESS you are only dealing with count of coins. If this is just counting coins then you seem to be describing:
x+y=49 and y=x+13. Those would be a system of equations.
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