document.write( "Question 486861: You have 55 coins totaling $10. There are more nickels than pennies, more dimes than nickles, and more quarters than dines. How many of each coin do you have? \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "I will assume that you have some pennies.  Then\r\n" );
document.write( "since $10.00 is 1000 cents, a multiple of 5, you\r\n" );
document.write( "must have a multiple of 5 pennies.  So the smallest\r\n" );
document.write( "number of pennies we can have is 5.  That makes that \r\n" );
document.write( "the smallest number of nickels we could have would\r\n" );
document.write( "be 6.\r\n" );
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document.write( "We will have the greatest possible number of quarters \r\n" );
document.write( "if we have the least possible number of pennies, nickels and dimes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That would be 5 pennies, 6 nickels and 7 dimes, which is 105 cents.\r\n" );
document.write( "Since 1000-105 = 895.  When we divide that by 25, we get 35.8. So\r\n" );
document.write( "that tells us we cannot have more than 35 quarters. \r\n" );
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document.write( "Hmmm!  Let's see if that's possible.  5 pennies, 6 nickels, and \r\n" );
document.write( "35 quarters.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That's a total of: \r\n" );
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document.write( "           coins   money\r\n" );
document.write( "pennies      5    $ .05\r\n" );
document.write( "nickels      6      .30\r\n" );
document.write( "quarters    35    $8.75   \r\n" );
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document.write( "totals      46    $9.10\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we have 9 coins to go and 90 cents to go\r\n" );
document.write( "in dimes, and so -- eureka!  That's easy. We \r\n" );
document.write( "can get that with 9 dimes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So we end up with:\r\n" );
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document.write( "           coins   money\r\n" );
document.write( "pennies      5    $ .05\r\n" );
document.write( "nickels      6      .30\r\n" );
document.write( "dimes        9      .90 \r\n" );
document.write( "quarters    35    $8.75   \r\n" );
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document.write( "totals      55   $10.00\r\n" );
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