SOLUTION: Bill has 13 coins in his pocket that have a total value of 95 cents. If these coins consist of nickels and dimes, how many of each kind are there?
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Question 805614: Bill has 13 coins in his pocket that have a total value of 95 cents. If these coins consist of nickels and dimes, how many of each kind are there?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of . So is the amount of money in nickels.
Let be the number of . So is the amount of money in dimes.
given:
...................eq.1
.........eq.2
______________________ solve the system
...................eq.1.....solve for
...................eq.1a................substitute in eq.2
.........eq.2.....solve for
........the number of
.............the number of
so, you have dimes and nickels
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