SOLUTION: Ethan has $1.25 in dimes nickels and pennies that’s why said many dimes and pennies and the number of nickels is one less than the number of pennies how many dimes nickels and pen

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Question 1114372: Ethan has $1.25 in dimes nickels and pennies that’s why said many dimes and pennies and the number of nickels is one less than the number of pennies how many dimes nickels and pennies as you have
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Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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The description has some information but overall does not make good sense.
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Ethan has $1.25 in dimes nickels and pennies that’s why said many dimes and pennies and the number of nickels is one less than the number of pennies how many dimes nickels and pennies as you have
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d dimes
n nickels
p pennies

This is what can be done with the given description:
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You can work with that and try to find some useful combinations of pennies, nickels, and dimes.