document.write( "Question 958641: how do you get $0.83 with only 7 coins and only nickels and pennies and they have to be the same
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document.write( "It's easy to see that there is no possible way to get 83 cents \r\n" );
document.write( "with 7 coins using only nickels and pennies.  Even if you used\r\n" );
document.write( "7 nickels you'd only have 35 cents!!!\r\n" );
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document.write( "In fact the only way to have 83 cents at all with 7 coins is \r\n" );
document.write( "the standard way for a clerk to to give a customer 83 cents in\r\n" );
document.write( "change, which is\r\n" );
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document.write( "3 quarters, 1 nickel, and 3 pennies.\r\n" );
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document.write( "That is 7 coins. \r\n" );
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document.write( "But there is obviously no way possible to have 83 cents with only 7 \r\n" );
document.write( "coins using nickels and pennies only.  We must have 3 quarters! \r\n" );
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