SOLUTION: Becky has 20 coins; some are quarters and the rest are dimes. The total vaue of the coins is $3.65. Find the number of each kind of coin.
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Question 451519: Becky has 20 coins; some are quarters and the rest are dimes. The total vaue of the coins is $3.65. Find the number of each kind of coin.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of quarters. Then 
must be the number of dimes. The value of the quarters is 
cents, and the value of the dimes is )
, and the sum of these two values must be the total amount of money, $3.65, which is to say 365 cents so as to express everything in the same units.
\ =\ 365)
Just solve for
John
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