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Question 387604: Joe has 28 coins. Some are nickels and some are dimes. The sum of the number of nickels and 3 times the number of dimes is 40. How many nickels and how many dimes does Joe have?
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Question 387131: An investor has $7500 invested at one rate and $6200 invested at a different rate. If the second investment is at a rate 2% lower than the first, find the rate for each investment if his annual interest is $698.

This is what I have so far:
7500x + 6200 x (x-.02) x 1 = $698

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Question 387921: The number of nickels is 5 times the number od dimes. Their value is $1.05. How many coins od each type are there?
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Question 388122: Bill has 10 coins, all of which are dimes and quarters. If his dimes were quarters and his quarters were dimes, his coins would total 30 cents more. How many quarters does Bill have?
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Question 388167: a bag of nickels and quarters contains FOUR times as many nickels as quarters. the total value of the coins in the bag is $1 .35. How many nickels are in the bag ? How many Quarters are in the bag ?
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Question 388294: In a penny Toss game, a player tosses 4 pennies. The player wins a pen-and-pencil set if he/she tosses exactly 2 heads and 2 tails. Any other combination is a loss for the player. What is the probability of winning this game? If someone played this game 80 times, about how many pen-and-pencil sets would he/she win? Show and explain your calculations.

Please help me! I would greatly appreciate your help :)
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Question 387073: Niki has 8 coins worth $1.40. Some of the coins are nickles and some are quarters. How many quarters and nickles does Niki have?
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Question 389118: Bugs Bunny has three types of coins in his bunny-bag: nickels, dimes, and pennies. Thirteen of them are nickels, 3/7 of them are pennies, and 20% of them are dimes. How much money does Bugs have in his bunny-bag?
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Question 389157: if i have 6 dollars and 15 cents and i have a equal amount of pennies nickels dimes and quaters how much do i have of each
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Question 389465: A bag contains nickles and quaters. There are 6 more nickles than quaters. Te total value of the coins is $4.50. How many of each coin are there?
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Question 390165: A vending machine accepted any combination of nickels, dimes, and quarters that added to 50 cents. How many different combinations of coins were possible?
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Question 390176: A coin bank contains twenty-four nickels and quarters. The number of quarters in the bank is six less than twice the number of nickels. Find the number of nickels and quarters in the bank. How do I do this question?
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Question 390418: Person has some coins stashed away in a bag. Use the clues to figure out how many of each type of coin she has:
She has at least one quarter, dime, nickel and penny;
She has a total of 11 coins;
She has 92 cents
The number of quarters plus the number of pennies equals the number of nickels;
The number of dimes plus the number of pennies equals the number of nickels.

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Question 390431: Tickets for the front section to a rock concert cost $25 each. The back section tickets sold for $15 each. If 400 tickets weere sold for a total take of $7500, how many of each type of ticket were sold?
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Question 390480: How do I solve this problem:
Royce has 1.30 in dimes and quarters. he has one fourth as many quarters as dimes.
How many of each does he have?
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Question 391169: Amanda has twice as many dimes as quarters. She also has five more nickles than quarters. If she has a total of $2.25, how many nickles does she have?
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Question 391933: Please! help me with this home work. Thank you
two cards are drawn from a standard deck of cards .Find probability
P(both king or red)
P(both face cards or both black)
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Question 391846: Monica's piggybank contains $8.55 in nickels, dimes, and quarters. The number of dimes is 5 more than 3 times the number of nickels. The number of quarters is 2 times the number of dimes. How many of each kind are there?
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Question 392217: 3/4 of the coins were nickels 25% were quarters and the rest were dimes what is the total amount of money?
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Question 392428: A bag contains nickels and quarters. There are 6 more nickels than quarters. The total value of the coins is $4.50. How mamy of each coin are there?
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Question 392435: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 14. The first digit is 4 less than the second digit. What is the original number?

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Question 392434: The sum of the digits of a two digit number is 5. When the digits are reversed, the new number is 27 less than the original number. What is the original number?

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Question 392478: kenny carried quarters. doug carried nine dimes. together they had $2.65.how many quarters did kerry carry?
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Question 392764: There are five fewer dimes than nickels. The total value is $4.00. How many coins are there of each type?
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Question 392905: Tom has 12 coins in quarters and knickels. Their value is $2.20. How many coins of each type does he have?
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Question 393444: Caroline has 16 coins, all sickles and galleons. Each sickle is worth 29 knuts, and each galleon is work 493 knuts. The total value of her money is 2784 knuts. How many of each type of coins does she have?
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Question 393440: Jake is collecting money from ticket sales. He has some $5 bills and some $10 bills in the cash box. There are twice as many $5 bills as $10 bills, and the total value of the bills is $240! How many of each type of bill are there?
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Question 394289: My weekly salary is $40 less than twice my colleague's salary. If together our salaries total $2060, what is my salary?
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Question 394706: Daniela has $35.30 in dimes and quarters. She has 3 more dimes
than quarters. How many quarters does she have?

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Question 395121: Bill has an equal number of dimes ad quarters. altogether they are worth$2.45. How many dimes does he have?
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Question 395125: Anne has $2.35 in nickels and dimes, 27 coins in all. how many nickels does she have? put as an equation
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Question 395538: Diana has been saving nickels and dimes. She opened up her piggy bank and determined that it contained 48 coins worth $4.50. Determine how many nickels and dimes were in the piggy bank.
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Question 395789: A coin collector bought a new coin worth 3 times the average value of the other 17 coins in his collection. What part of the value of the total collection does the new coin represent?
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Question 395890: Here is the word problem I am having complications solving: "Jeremy has 24 quarters and half dollars. If he had twice as many half dollars and half as many quarters, he would have two dollars more. How much money does he have?" I did not know where to start with this problem. Please help me on this word problem. Thanks in advanced!
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Question 396002: They made a 20% profit on the dimes and a 10% profit on the silver dollars.
How much total profit, in dollars, did they make?
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Question 396503: A collection of nickels and dimes total $5.95. If there are 5 times as many nickels as dimes, then how many of each coin is there?
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Question 396901: Patrick visited the school store. NOtebooks cost 75 cents and pens cost 50 cents. How many different combinations of notebooks and pens could Patrick buy for $5.00?
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Question 397607: Bob has 5 coins in mickels and dimes. Altogether he has $.40. How many dimes and nickels does he have?

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Question 397917: The sum of the digits of a 2-digit number is 9. if the digits were reversed, the new number would be 9 more than the original number. Find the original number.
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Question 398683: what does three quarters,three nickels,six dimes,and four pennies egual??
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Question 399007: You have $160 and save $7 per week. your friend has $210 and saves $5 per week . After how many weeks will each of you have saved the same amount of money?
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Question 399678: a business executive bought 40 stamps for $14.40. the purchase included .39 stamps and .24 stamps. How many of each type of stamp sold?
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Question 400018: Please help me solve this: Zack has $20.25 in nickles and quaters. The number of nickels is 33 less than the number of quaters. How many of each does he have?
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