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Bob has a coin collection made up of pennies and nickels if he has three times as many pennies as nickels and the total face value of coins $4
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Bob has a coin collection made up of pennies and nickels if he has three times as many pennies as nickels and the total face value of coins $416 how many coins of each kind are in the collection?
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Bob has a coin collection made up of pennies and nickels
if he has three times as many pennies as nickels
and the total face value of coins $416
how many coins of each kind are in the collection?
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let p = no. of pennies
let n = no. of nickels
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Write an equation for each statement
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" he has three times as many pennies as nickels"
p = 3n
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"the total face value of coins $416 "
.01p + .05n = 416
replace p with 3n (from the first statement)
.01(3n) + .05n = 416
.03n + .05n = 416
.08n = 416
n = 416/.08
n = 5200 nickels
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Find the no. of pennies
p = 3(5200)
p = 15600 pennies
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Check this find the $value of each coin
.01(15200) = $156 in pennies
.05(5200) = $260 in nickels
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total value: $416
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How about this, was it understandable to you? ankor@att.net
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