document.write( "Question 525550: I have two coins, both U.S. currency and together they add up to $0.30. One of the coins is not a quarter. What are the two coins? \n" ); document.write( "

Algebra.Com's Answer #348146 by lmeeks54(111) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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This is a trick question and found often in joke and riddle books (my 4th grade daughter loves trying to trip me up on problems like this).
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\n" ); document.write( "First, with US coins coming in 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 cents denominations, and two problem conditions:
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\n" ); document.write( "US currency (so no trick of using foreign coins of different values)
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\n" ); document.write( "The answer HAS to be: a nickel and a quarter.
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\n" ); document.write( "The stipulation that ONE (my emphasis) is not a quarter often throws people off; however, it only means of the two coins in question, one of them cannot be a quarter. The intuitive trick is to go, \"a ha!, the other coin is the quarter, the first must be the nickel.\"
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\n" ); document.write( "This trick is based on words and logic, not on mathematics...
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\n" ); document.write( "cheers,
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