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Question 1119382: A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many five's as ten's and the total amount of money in the cash register is 700 dollars. How many ten's are in the cash register? Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, Alan3354:Answer by ikleyn(53937) (Show Source):
In accordance with the condition, you can group the banknotes in sets ($5, $5, $10).
Each set is worth 10 + 5 + 5 = 20 dollars, and the number of such sets is = 35.
So, you have 35 of $10 bills and 70 of $5 dollar bills, in total 35*$10 + 70*$5 = $700. ! Correct !
Thus you got the mental solution using the grouping method.
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apostrophes are not appropriate.
The plural of five is fives, not five's.
