SOLUTION: A money box contains only 10-cent and 20-cent coins. There are 34 coins with a total value of $5.40. How many coins of each?

Question 996114: A money box contains only 10-cent
and 20-cent coins. There are 34
coins with a total value of $5.40.
How many coins of each?

Answer by ikleyn(52767)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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A money box contains only 10-cent and 20-cent coins. There are 34 coins with a total value of $5.40. How many coins of each?
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Let me solve it by an unusual way.

Let us suppose for a moment that all 34 coins are 10-cent.
Then their value is $3.40. It is less than $5.40 exactly in $2 = 200 cents.
It is clear that the difference is due to presence of 20-cent coins,
and it is also clear that the number of these 20-cent coins is 20 to cover the difference.
So, the answer is: 20 of 20-cent coins and 34-20 = 14 of 10-cent coins.

Notice. According to this article of Wikipedia, "The American twenty-cent piece is a coin struck
from 1875 to 1878, but only for collectors in the final two years."

20-cent coins are currently in use in Australia (see here).

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