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Question 486666: In how many different ways can you make change for one dollar without using pennies?
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Question 486861: You have 55 coins totaling $10. There are more nickels than pennies, more dimes than nickles, and more quarters than dines. How many of each coin do you have?
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Question 487002: 6 ways to make $1.00 using only 25 coins.
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Question 487219: I have a jar filled with $100 worth of quarters, nickels, and dimes.
I have the same amount of each type of coin. How many total coins do I have in my jar?
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Question 487828: If there is $1.60 in change and you have the same amount of dimes, nickels, and quarters then how many coins are there?
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Question 487951: A jar of coins has 48 coins worth $4.50 in it. All the coins are nickels and dimes. Determine how many nickels and dimes are in the jar.
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Question 488067: list three digit numbers that can be written using each of the digits 2,5,and 8 once and only once
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Question 487830: Marie poured her coins into a machine. The machine counted 88 coins. For every penny, there were 5 nickles, 3 dimes, and 2 quaters. What was the total value of maries coins?
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Question 488655: how to make 52 cents using only 9 coins
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Question 489632: Please help me. I'm struggling with these word problems. This is too difficult. Diane has $1.65 in dimes and nickels. She has a total of 21 coins. How many of each does she have?
Suppose Tom has 14 coins totaling $2.30. If he has on dimes and quarters, how many of each does he have?

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Question 490508: please solve this one...
A man divides $10,000 in two investments, one at 10% and the other at 30%. Find how much is invested at each rate so that the two investments produce the same income annually.. the answer is $2,500 and $7,500.. I just need the solution thank you..
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Question 491613: cheese doodles cost 80 cents. the campus vendingmachine only accepts quarters, dimes, and nickles. how many quarters, dimes, and nickles do you have to put into the vending machine to get a bag of cheese doodles. list ALL possible combinations. and how do you know when you find all of the combinations.
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Question 491881: How many quarters do you need in your piggy bank to save 1 million dollars?
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Question 492107: James has 25 nickels and dines. He has a total of $1.90. how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 492430: I have one more dime than I have quarters and the total amount of the coins is $1.15. How many dimes and quarters do I have?
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Question 492814: Suppose you want to make $5 using exactly 100 common US coins.
Easy, you say: just use nickels (5 cents each). But I say, no -
we have NO nickels, only pennies (1 cent), dimes (10 cents) and
quarters (25 cents) - is it possible to make $5 now with exactly
100 of these coins? Why or why not?
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Question 492909: Mary and her brother John collect foreign coins. Mary has twice the number of coins that John has. Together they have 105 foreign coins. find how many coins Mary has.

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Question 492980: You can use the expression 5n to determine the amount of money you have, in cents, when you have 18 nickels

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Question 493471: I cannot figure this one out. Can you please help me?
there was 48 nickles, dimes, and quarters whose value was $8.25. If there were twice as many quarters as dimes, how many coins of each kind were there?
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Question 493919: I have 26 coins, worth $3.45, comprised of nickels, dimes, and quarters. The total number of dimes is four less than the combined total of nickels and quarters. How many of each do I have?
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Question 494739: a gold coin weighs 20 grams. if the coins contain gold, copper, and tin in the ratio 4:3:1. how much gold is there in the coin?

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Question 495561: A bank contains nickels,dimes,and quarters with a total value of $3.05. the number of quarters is three less than the number of nickels and the number of dimes is two more than 3 times the number of nickels. how many coins of each type are in the bank?
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Question 496068: You have q quarters, d dimes, and n nickels in a piggy bank.
a. Write an expression for the total value of the coins in dollars.
b. Evaluate your expression for q = 4, d = 5, and n = 7. How much money is in the piggy bank?
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Question 495533: I have $9.45 in quarters and dimes in my pocket. The number of dimes is 18 less than twice the number of quarters. How many of each do I have in my pocket?
I tried but i keep getting stuck. This is what I tried doing:
dimes=18-2(quarters)
#of dimes + # of quarters=$9.45
(18-2(quarters)) + # of quarters= $9.45
18-3(quarters)=$9.45
-3(quarters)= -8.55
quarters=2.85
thats not possible
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Question 496994: Directions: Express the given quantity in terms of the indicated variable.
Question: The value (in cents) of the change in a purse that contains twice as many nickels as pennies, four more dimes than nickles, and as many quarters as dimes and nickles combined; p = number of pennies.
am i on the right track by saying
let n= nickels
p= pennies
d= dimes
q= quarters
2n+p
4d+n
q= d+n .....i know the answer should only have the variable "p", but i don't see how to make it an algebraic equation only using "p". thank you
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Question 497134: plato has 58 coins in nickels,dimes,and quarters.The number of nickels is three less than twice the number of dimes.The total number of coins is $7.40.How many of each type of coin does he have?
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Question 498097: which set has more a set with fewer than 11 coins but more than 5 coins or a set with more than 6 coins but fewer than 10 coins draw the sets to prove your answer
alma is planning a vegetable garden for the spring she will plant radishes on may 15 cucumbers on may 21 tomatos on may 30 and peas on may 12 in what order will alma plant the vegetables
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Question 498302: Lindsey has 43 coins in her change purse that are either dimes or quarters. If n represents the number of quarters, write an expression in terms of n taht describes the numbers of dimes
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Question 498746: What 8 coins total $1.15?
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Question 498970: a box contains 34 coins, consisting of pennies dimes and quaters. the number of pennies is equal to the number of dimes and the total value is $3.82. how many of each denomination of coins do you have
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Question 498969: a box contains 34 coins, consisting of pennies dimes and quaters. the number of pennies is equal to the number of dimes and the total value is $3.82. how many of each denomination of coins do you have
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Question 498967: a box contains 34 coins, consisting of pennies dimes and quaters. the number of pennies is equal to the number of dimes and the total value is $3.82. how many of each denomination of coins do you have
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Question 499002: how to make $2.20 with dimes and quarters
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Question 498996: PLEASE HELP!!!
Shopkeeper moneypenny needs coins. he wants the same amount of the following coins, i.e he wants to have coins with the value of 1,2,5,10,20,50 cent and 1 euro.
He wants to change 282 euro into coins. is it possible to have the same amount of the different coins, and if it is, How many coins all together, will he get
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Question 499402: Mike has $2.05 in dimes and nickels. If he has 8 more nickels than dimes, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 499401: Sue has $2.50 in dimes and nickels. If she has 10 more dimes than nickels, how many of each coin does she have?
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Question 499594: Can 46 pennies and nickels make a total value of a dollar.
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Question 500170: Suppose that Maria has 160 coins consisting of pennies, nickels, and dimes. The number of nickels she has is 5 less than twice the number of pennies; the number of dimes she has is 21 less than three times the number of pennies. How many coins of each kind does she have?
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Question 500273: Michelle has x quarters.
a) Express the value of her quarters in cents.
b) Express the value of her quarters in dollars.
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Question 500652: 1760 pennies equals how many quarters?
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Question 501312: jose has 6 more dimes than quarters. if his coins $1.65, how many coins of each type does he have?
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Question 501638: a man has two more dimes than quarters and three times as many nicles as dinmes, Altogether he has 2.50. How many of each coin does he have
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