SOLUTION: Due to the abuse the pay phones in the school lobby are exposed to, some of them have a mind of their own and will only accept dimes and nickels. At the end of the day when they we

Question 122512: Due to the abuse the pay phones in the school lobby are exposed to, some of them have a mind of their own and will only accept dimes and nickels. At the end of the day when they were emptied, one phone had 80 coins totaling $6.65. How many dimes had been deposited into that phone that day?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Put the amount in the phone in terms of pennies
= number of dimes
= number of nickels

There are 53 dimes and 27 nickels in the phone
check

OK
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