SOLUTION: A youth organization collected nickeles and dimes for a charity drive by the end of the day they collected $54 if there were four times as many dimes as nickels how many of each ty
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Question 1097680: A youth organization collected nickeles and dimes for a charity drive by the end of the day they collected $54 if there were four times as many dimes as nickels how many of each type of coin was collected Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source):
Your collection is such that you can group all coins in groups/sets containing 4 dimes and one nickel each.
Each group is worth 4*10+5 = 45 cents.
Hence, the number of these groups is = 120.
Hence, the coin collection consists of 120 nickels and 120*4 = 480 dimes.
Answer. The coin collection consists of 120 nickels and 480 dimes.
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