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Question 54310: If Joe & Jane have a total of 40 coins consisting of nickels & dimes totaling $3.00. How many nickels & dimes do they have.

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Question 56330: Thanks for your help!!
Jill has $3.50 in nickles and dimes.If she has 50 coins, how many of each type of coin does she have? McGraw Hill 6th edition,8.2, # 56.
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Question 57225: A box of coins contains dimes, quarters, and half dollars. The face value of the half dollars and the dimes is the same as the face value of the quarters. Together the face value of the dimes and quarters is $6.50. The total number of coins is 43. How many dimes, quarters, and half dollars are in the box?
PS- This problem came off a worksheet otherwise I would give the information about the book. Basically I want you to know I'm not a slacker.
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Question 58389: In his pocket Chip has 4 more dimes than quarters. If the quarters and dimes total $2.85, how many quarters and dimes does he have?
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Question 58390: Josh has seven times as many nickels as quarters. If the coins total $2.40, how many of each does he have?
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Question 58388: Jim has a jar of dimes, nickels, and pennies. He has one dime more than five times the number of nickels and four times as many pennies as nickels. How many of each coin are in the jar if the total value is $7.77?
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Question 59028: A box of coins contains dimes, quarters, and half dollars. The face value of the half dollars and the dimes is the same as the face value of the quarters. Together the face value of the dimes and quarters is $6.50. The total number of coins is 43. How many dimes, quarters, and half dollars are in the box?
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Question 60293: This word problem has to do with coins, but I need to solve it by setting up and solving a system of two linear equations in two variables.
Cindy has 43 coins consisting of nickels and dimes. The total value of the coins is $3.40. How many coins of each kind does she have?
I have gotten this far:
n + d = 3.40
is that right?
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Question 60459: I have two us coins in my hand that equal 55 cents, and one is not a nickle what are they?
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Question 61817: a women has 3 times as many dimes as nickels. she has $4.20. How many of each cion does she have?
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Question 62147: Joseph has 4 times as many quarters as he does dimes. If he has a total of $2.65, how many of each type of coin does he have?
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Question 62147: Joseph has 4 times as many quarters as he does dimes. If he has a total of $2.65, how many of each type of coin does he have?
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Question 62151: Joseph has 4 times as many quarters as he does dimes. If he has a total of $2.20, how many of each type of coin does he have?
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Question 62516: Three boys are going to a party and comparing how much money they have. sam works out that he has $6 more than Mark and $12 more than Dean. If they have $75 altogether, how much does Sam have?
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Question 62515: Three boys are going to a party and comparing how much money they have. sam works out that he has $6 more than Mark and $12 more than Dean. If they have $75 altogether, how much does Sam have?
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Question 62530: A big jar contains four times as many quaters as pennies, three times as many nickels as dimes, and twice as many pennies as nickels. There are only pennies, nickels, dimes and quaters in this jar. THe total amoun in the jar is 25.24 find th number of pennies, nickels, dimes and quaters in this jar.
Please HElp!!!!
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Question 64036: Mike has 7 more nickles than quarters. In all he has $1.25. How man nickles does he have?
I'm stuck again!
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Question 64036: Mike has 7 more nickles than quarters. In all he has $1.25. How man nickles does he have?
I'm stuck again!
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Question 64036: Mike has 7 more nickles than quarters. In all he has $1.25. How man nickles does he have?
I'm stuck again!
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Question 64163: you hand a costomer $0.40 in change.
a. in how many ways can you do this without using pennies?
b. for part (a), make a table.
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Question 65380: joe has $4.70 in half-dollars, quarters, and dimes. The number of quarters is 10 less than twice the number of dimes. The number of half-dollars decreased by the number of quarters is 2. Find the umber of coins of each type.
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Question 65415: Good evening.I would like to ask you to solve for these problems for me..
1) A 60 feet piece of rope is cut into two pieces. One is 12 feet more than three times the other. How long is each piece?
2) If there are 26 coins in a collection of dimes and quarters, and the value of the collection is $4.70, how many dimes and how many quarters are there?

Your best regard.
modi21
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Question 41648: I am having trouble setting up this problem:
*John found a box of coins. The box contained nickels,dimes, and quarters. He added up the change and there were 85 coins totaling $6.25 in the box. If there were 3 times as many nickels as dimes, how many quarters were there?
-I came up with the equation 3x+y=85 (x=nickels, y=dimes),but this equation alone doesn't help so I think that I may need to use substitution, but I can't come up with another equation.
Please Help! Thank YOu
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Question 48872: Good Evening, i have one problem to ask you to solve for me>

1) A collection of coins is worth $5.00. The number of dimes is twice the number of nickels, and the number of quarters is 2 more than 5 times the number of nickels. What is total number of coins?
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Question 66569: Your piggy bank has 25 coins in it; some are quarters and some are nickels. You have $3.45. How many quarters and nickels do you have? (I know you can figure this out by trial and error, but you must write the equations and solve.)
Hint: You have two unknowns: "q" for quarters and "n" for nickels. You need two equations. Write one equation for the number of coins that you have and a second equation for the value of the coins. (An unknown number of nickels would have the value of .05n.)

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Question 67007: You have 15 coins in your pocket that are either quarters or nickels. They total $2.75. How many of each coin do you have? Write and solve a system of equation to model the situation. I so far have have 0.25q+ 0.05=2.75
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Question 67101: When Jim cleaned out the pool, he found 20 nickels and quarters. The collection of nickels and quarters totaled $2.60. How many quarters did Jim find?
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Question 67484: "Jimmy had $5.25 in nickels and quarters. If he had 15 more nickels than quarters, how many coins of each type did he have?" HELP ME PLEASE!!!!
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Question 67607: Harvey has 12 coins in quarters and dimes, worth $1.80. How many dimes does he have?
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Question 67646: Jeramie has a jar of nickels and dimes. There are 200 coins worth $14.00. How many of each type of coin are in the jar?
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Question 68147: Hector has a collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters totaling 122 coins. The number of dimes he has is 3 more than four times the number of nickels, and the number of quarters he has is 19 less than the number of dimes. How many coins of each kind does he have?
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Question 68192: if i have 2 american coins that equal 55 cents,how can one of them not be a nickle?
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Question 68405: Hector has a collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters totaling 122 coins. The number of dimes he has is 3 more than four times the number of nickels, and the number of quarters he has is 19 less then the number of dimes. How many coins of each kind does he have?
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Question 67613: This does not relate to coins, however I could not find the right place to go. I had help with a question that I had sent, #67075. Word problem with the Queen Mary. The answer was right, however my teacher marked exponent? NOt sure what she is asking. Could you please help. Greatly appreciated.
Grateful 7th grader
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Question 69526: (This is on page 105.) I'm going to type the question and then type how I tried to solve it.
"Marcela has a collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters worth $24.75. The number of dimes is 10 more than twice the number of nickels, and the number of quarters is 25 more than the number of dimes. How many coins of each kind does she have?"
I tried to work it like this:
Let nickels= x @ .05
Let dimes= 2x+10 @ .10
Let quarters= 2x+10+25 @ .25
x+2x+10+2x+10+25=?
Everytime I try this...I can not seem to get it right. I have to test on this on Thurs. and I just can not get it.
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Question 69672: please help solve the equation...Jill has $3.50 in nickels and dimes..if she has 50 coins, how many of each type of coin does she have?
X= nickels = .05
Y= dimes = .10
.05X + .10Y = 50

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Question 69930: A collection of quarters and nickels is worth $3.70. There are 22 coins in all. How many of each are there?
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Question 71010: Jill has $3.50 in nickels and dimes. If she has 50 coins, how many of each type of coin does she have?
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Question 71011: A coffe merchant has coffee beans that sell for $9 per pound and $12 per pound. The two types are to be mixed to create 100lb of a mixture that will sell for $11.25 per pound. How much of ech type of bean should be used in the mixture?
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Question 71391: page 464, problem number 17. everyday you save two pennies more than you saved the day before. one the first day you saved one penny. how many pennies would you have after 100 days?
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Question 71487: do you know what the answer to this problem is ? The coin box of a vending machine contains 6 times as many quarters as dimes. If the total amount of money in quarters and dimes is $28.80, how many quarters and how many dimes are in the box?
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Question 71758: Stefan has 42 coins in his collection. The coins consist of nickels, dimes, and quarters. He has twice as many quarters as dimes. Although the collection has been appraised at $1200, the coins' face value is $6.60. How many of each type of coin does he have?
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