SOLUTION: A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many five's as ten's and the total amount of money in the cash register is 720 dollars. How man

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Question 1202605: A cash register contains only five dollar and ten dollar bills. It contains twice as many five's as ten's and the total amount of money in the cash register is 720 dollars. How many ten's are in the cash register?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Very literal.

x of the ten dollar bills
2x of the five dollar bills
10x%2B5%2A2x=720

20x=720
highlight%28x=36%29ten_dollar_bills-----------------This means, 72 of the five dollar bills