SOLUTION: how many ways can you make $0.30 using dimes nickels and pennies? I would like to know how to do it instead of just the answer plz.''

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Question 893669: how many ways can you make $0.30 using dimes nickels and pennies?
I would like to know how to do it instead of just the answer plz.''

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Difficult to explain here, but you build a tree diagram. Start with the dimes, and work to progressively lower coin values.

0 dimes; how many ways can you choose nickels; for each of them how many ways can you choose pennies.

1 dime; how many ways to choose nickels; for each of them how many ways to choose pennies.

2 dimes; same set of questions.

3 dimes; This combination itself already makes $0.30.

Count all of the combinations.