SOLUTION: 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 540 dollars. How man
Algebra.Com
Question 335411: 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 540 dollars. How many ten's are in the cash register?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let F be the number of $5 bills, T the number of $10 bills.
1.
.
.
.
2.
Substitute eq. 1 into eq. 2,
Then from eq. 1,
RELATED QUESTIONS
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by josgarithmetic)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by math_tutor2020,josgarithmetic,Edwin McCravy,ikleyn)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by wuwei96815)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by Fombitz)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by checkley77)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by checkley77)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by haileytucki)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by checkley79)
A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many (answered by jorel1380)