document.write( "Question 312883: the cash box for the school play contains 233$ in 2$ coins and 5$ bills. how many coins and how many bills are there if the total of coins and bills is 61? \n" ); document.write( "

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represent the number of $2 coins. Since there are 61 coins and bills,

represents the number of $5 bills.\r
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$2 coins is

dollars. The value of

$5 bills is

dollars. We know there are $233 altogether, so:\r
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for the number of coins and subtract that from 61 for the number of bills.\r
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