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Question 414424: In his pocket, Tamir has fewer than 10 coins totaling 75 cents. How many possible combinations of coins could he have?
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Question 414585: A coin consists of 1/5 zinc, 1/10 manganese, and 1/40 copper. The rest of the coin is nickel. What fraction of the coin is nickel?
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Question 414585: A coin consists of 1/5 zinc, 1/10 manganese, and 1/40 copper. The rest of the coin is nickel. What fraction of the coin is nickel?
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Question 414762: A vending machine contains nickles and dimes worth $14.50. There are 95 more nickles than dimes. How many dimes and how many nickles are there?

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Question 416299: I need help on this problem. Lisa's piggy bank contained 21 dimes, nickels, and pennies. The total in the piggy bank was $1.21. Lisa removed all the dimes from the piggy bank. This left only 41 cents in the bank. How many pennies were in the bank? I did three equations:
d+n+p=21
10d+5n+1p=121
5n+1p=41
I tried to subtract the frist two equations first, then work with the answer I got and tried to subtract the third one. Can you please show me how it's done correctly.

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Question 416563: Jane has $12:00 in quarters and dimes. She has five times as many dimes,d, as quarters.q. Determine the number of quarters she has.
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Question 416972: coin collector had 6 coins for sale
one he price @15,16,18,19,20,31 he sold all but one of the coins
to 2 people one payinng 2xs as much as the other one
which coin did he keep
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Question 417391: If you have 60 coins that equal $4.45 in nickels and dimes. How many nickels and dimes do you have?
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Question 417331: A donation box contains 49 coins consisting of nickels, dimes, and quarters. The number of quarters is two more than twice the number of dimes. The total value of the coins is $3.30. Find the number of nickles, dimes, and quarters.
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Question 417295: Sue had 6 times as many quarters as Jim. Ben has twice as many quarters as Jim. Together they had $9. How much money did each person have?
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Question 417613: ryan has more than a dollar in coins in his bank. but he can't make change for a dollar. What coins does he have? How many different solutions can you find?
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Question 417819: The number of nickels that Christine has is 5 times the number of dimes. Their value is $1.o5. How many coins of each type does she have?
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Question 418869: How do make $110 with only dimes and quarters ?
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Question 419588: Cathy has $2.30 in dimes and quarters if the number of dimes is 5 less than the numbers of quarters, how many coins of each type does she have?
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Question 419693: Hi tutor, i have a booklet due tomorrow for school and i really need too get 100 percent on it too get into math 10-1 for highschool. I managed too do all the questions except for this one, it is really difficult. Help would be greatly appreciated, please and thank-you. Q : A certain number of nickels, two more dimes than nickels and two more quarters than dimes is worth $1.60. Find how many of each kind there are. Its supposed to be an alebra question. I need too set up and equation, show my work and provide a table for full marks. This question is just so hard, i really need the help please & thanks. For the table i managed too put it like this. Nickels, dimes & quarters, & value, number and amount. Please help me out thank you so much god bless you.
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Question 419685: Hi tutor, i do not get this question what so ever. It his a problem solving, algebraic question. I really need help. It would be greatly appreciated, thank you so much, may god bless you. Q : 500 tickets for a football game were sold and the total receipts were $105. Some of the tickets sold for $15 and the rest sold for 25cents. Find the number of each sold. ( i am required too provide a equation/formula , write a table i already have that set up : i have it as ticket 1 & ticket two & value, number and amount. & i also would greatly appreciate if you show the work as too how you got the answers, so i can learn from it. Thank you so much.
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Question 419780: $2.77 in a coin jar- all pennies(x), nickels(y), and dimes(z). If there are 53 coins in all, and 4 more nickels than dimes, how many of each coin do you have. Setup all 3 equations in x,y,z and solve the equations to find x(pennies), y(nickels), and z(dimes). Note: 1 equation has only y and z.
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Question 420183: Sally has 5 more quarters than dimes. She has half as many nickels as dimes . She has an equal number of loonies as dimes. In total she has $15.00. How many quarters does sally have?
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Question 422955: Hi,
Marcos had 15 coins in nickels and quarters than nickels. He wrote a system of equations to represent this situation, letting x represent the number of nickels and y represent the number of quarters. Then he solved the system by graphing. What is the solution?
A)6,9
B)5,10
Thanks for your help, been really apreciated
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Question 422961: Hi,
Marcos had 15 coins in nickels and quarters. He had 3 more quarters than nickels. He wrote a system of equations to represent this situation, letting x be the number of nickels and y represent the number of quarters. Then he solved the system by graphing. What is the solution?
A)(6,9)
B) (5,10)
Thanks for you help, been really appreciated
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Question 424032: Jeffery has a piggy bank with $28.00 in dimes and quarters. If there are 205 coins in total, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 425152: Olga has 5 times as many dimes as nickels. If she has $3.30, how man of each coin does she have?
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Question 425254: amanda has 20 coins worth a total of $1.35. the coins are all nickels and dimes. how many coins of each does she have ?
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Question 425332: a bag has $21.60 in quarters and dimes. there is a total of 111 coins. how many dimes are in the bag?
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Question 426284: There is a jar with nickels and quarters in it. There are 95 coins in the jar and the coins total $12.95. How many of each coin is there?

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Question 426675: if i have pennies and nickles, and together they add up to 43 cents, what would be two equations i could use to find out the number of pennies and nickels i have?
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Question 427623: Joe and Joel found a ten peso bill while walking. Since Joe was the first to see the bill, he asked to have more than a peso of the divided amount between them. How much then the money of Joe which is more than a peso than Joel's?
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Question 428314: A child's bank contains nickels dimes and quarters. There are three times as many nickels as dimes and there are five more quarters than nickels. The total value of the coins in the bank is $6.25. Find the number of each type of coin.
Can somebody please help me?
Thank you,
Marie
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Question 428319: You have 10 conis that total 85 cents.Some are Dimes and Some are Nickels. How many of each coin do you have?
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Question 429609: A piggy bank has 80 coins of which 20 percent are quarters. What is the least amount of money that could be in the piggy bank?
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Question 430028: how many ways can you put fifty cents into a candy machine , using only nickels and/or dimes?
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Question 430955: Sonya has a bag of coins with only nickels and quarters. if she has 105 coins worth a total of $17.25, how many of each type of coin does she have?
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Question 430966: If £28=$41.44, what is the exchangerate between the £ and the $?
Ie. 1£=$??
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Question 152564: how many ways to make change for one dollar using nickels, dimes and quarters
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Question 152564: how many ways to make change for one dollar using nickels, dimes and quarters
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Question 431868: My question is: A coin bank contains 25 coins in nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are four times as many dimes as quarters. The value of the coins is $2.05. how many dimes are in the bank? I came up with n+ n+4+ n= 25. Please help me.....
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Question 431899: If you have 100 nickels and dimes coming to a total of $7, how many nickels and dimes are there?
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Question 434946: Bertha has 33 coins in her pocket totaling $5.25. If she only has nickles and quarters, how many of each type of coin does she have
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Question 435058: Tiffany has 20 coins that are nickels and dimes. The total value of the coins is $1.75. How many nickels and dimes does she have?
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Question 436125: Armand and Benito want to go to the camp store to buy snack for their hike. They pull the change out of their pockets and find that they have a total of $2.50. Benito notices that they have twice as many dimes as they have nickels and two more quarters than nickels. Find out how many nickels, dimes, and quarters they have to spend on their snacks.
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Question 436317: Robin has a collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters worth $38.50. She has 10 more dimes than nickels and twice as many quarters as dimes. How many coins of each kind does she have?
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