SOLUTION: How many ways can you spilt $614 in twenty’s, ten’s and dollar bills?

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Question 1119006: How many ways can you spilt $614 in twenty’s, ten’s and dollar bills?
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Clearly, using only 20s, 10s, and 1s, the number of 1s to make a total of $614 must be a number with units digit 4. So make an organized list of the different possible numbers of $1 bills; for each of those numbers, find the number of combinations of 20s and 10s that make the remainder of the $614.

For each such case, that will be easy; using only 20s and 10s, the number of ways to make the remaining amount is just the number of choices you have for the number of 20s.

For example, if there are 104 $1 bills, the remaining amount is $510. The number of 20s you can have is any whole number for which the sum of the $20 bills is less than or equal to $510. That means 0 to 25 $20 bills, making 26 ways to make the $614 total using 104 $1 bills.

Then look for a pattern in the numbers of ways for the different cases to find an easy way to determine the total number of ways.

So...
  # of $1  remaining  # of
   bills    amount    ways
  -------------------------
    4       610       31  (0 to 30)
   14       600       31  (0 to 30)
   24       590       30  (0 to 29)
   34       580       30  (0 to 29)
   44       570       29
  ...
  584        30        2  (0 or 1)
  594        20        2  (0 or 1)
  604        10        1  (0)
  614         0        1  (0)


The total number of ways is then seen to be

2(1+2+...+31) = 2((31*32)/2) = 992

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