document.write( "Question 779049: a child's bank contains $1.15 in dimes and quarters. Find all the possibilities for the number of each type of coin in the bank \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "Since $1.15 ends with a 5, the bank cannot contain exactly\r\n" );
document.write( "2 quarters or exactly 4 quarters, because adding any number\r\n" );
document.write( "of dimes to 2 or 4 quarters will only give a sum ending \r\n" );
document.write( "in 0.  So there can only either be exactly 1 or exactly 3 \r\n" );
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document.write( "So there are just 2 possibilities:\r\n" );
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document.write( "If there is exactly 1 quarter, the remaining 90¢ must consist of 9 dimes.\r\n" );
document.write( "If there are exactly 3 quarters, the remaining 40¢ must consist of 4 dimes.\r\n" );
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