document.write( "Question 1135218: A bag contains pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are 50 coins in all. Of the coins, 10% are pennies and 40% are dimes. There are 9 more nickels than pennies. How much money does the bag contain?\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #752799 by ikleyn(52794) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "10% of 50 coins is/are 5 coins.  So, 5 coins are pennies.\r\n" );
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document.write( "40% of 50 coins is/are 20 coins.  So, 20 coins are dimes.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of nickels is  (5 + 9) = 14, according to the condition.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then quarters are the rest (50 - 5 - 20 - 14) = 11 coins.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now you can easily calculate the total and answer the question\r\n" );
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document.write( "    Total = 5*1 + 14*5 + 20*10 + 11*25 = 550 cents = $5.50.     ANSWER\r\n" );
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