document.write( "Question 1079854: condi has $5 dollars in her change purse. She only has quarters, nickels and dimes. The number of dimes is equal to the number of quarters and the number of quarters is 1/3 the number of nickels. How many dimes? \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "condi has $5 dollars in her change purse. She only has quarters, nickels and dimes. The number of dimes is equal to the number of quarters and the number of quarters is 1/3 the number of nickels. How many dimes?
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Let the number of dimes be D
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document.write( "Then the number of quarters = D
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document.write( "Number of nickels = 3D
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document.write( "We then get: .1D + .25D + .05(3D) = 5
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document.write( ".1D + .25D + .15D = 5
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document.write( ".5D = 5
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document.write( "D, or number of dimes =  \n" );
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