SOLUTION: Jaime has 12 bills in his wallet in $1 and $5 bills. He has twice as many $1 bills as $5 bills. How much money does he have? Write a system of equations that could be used to fi

Question 552472: Jaime has 12 bills in his wallet in $1 and $5 bills. He has twice as many $1 bills as $5 bills. How much money does he have?
Write a system of equations that could be used to find out how much money Jaime has?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of $5 bills he has
= number of $1's he has
given:

(1)
His amount of money is:
(2)
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