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Question 913581: keema cashed her paycheck and came home from the bank with 1460 in bills of twenties, fives, and hundreds. she has eight times as many fives as twenties and five more hundreds as twenties. how many of each bills does she have?
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Question 913560: How much money would there be if dimes were lined up a mile long?
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Question 914188: The sum of two numbers is 15. Three times one of the number is 11 less than 5 times the other. Find the number.
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Question 914174: Mr.Man has a sum of money to buy fruits. He can buy n mangoes at �1.60 each and have �0.80 left. Alternatively, he can buy (n+10) apples at �0.70 each and have �0.10 left
a) Find the value of n
b) How much money does Mr.Man have for buying fruits?
c) If Mr.Man buys 3 mangoes and uses the rest of the money to buy apples, how many apples can he buy? And how much money will he have left?
Thank you so much for your help!

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Question 914421: Ceci has $2.55 in nickels and dimes. If she has 9 more dimes than nickels, how many of each coin does she have?
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Question 914468: Fertilizer with weed control costing $46 per 50-pound bag is to be mixed with a less expensive fertilizer costing $8 per 50-pound bag to make 19 bags of fertilizer that can be sold for $28 per bag. How many bags of cheaper fertilizer should be used?
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Question 914467: A pound of tin is worth $1 more than a pound of copper. Two pounds of tin are mixed with 8 pounds of copper to make bronze that sells for $4.45 per pound. How much is a pound of tin worth?
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Question 914462: A scuba diver, hired by an amusement park, collected $159 in nickels, dimes, and quarters at the bottom of a wishing well. There were 700 nickels, and 90 more quarters than dimes. How many quarters and dimes were thrown into the wishing well?
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Question 914500: If you have five dozen coins how many coins do you have ?
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Question 914686: stan has 17 dollars in nickels and quarters. if he has 100 coins, then how many of them are quarters?
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Question 914864: a man buys 36 coins all of which are either 50 cents or 10 cents and the total value is 11.60 dollars how many stamps of each kind does he buy
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Question 914908: Esteban has a big jar of change in his room. He has 600 coins total, and 240 of them are pennies.
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Question 915196: A collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters amounts to $7.50. If there are 120 coins in all and there are twice as many dimes as there are quarters, find the number of nickels.

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Question 915468: jennifer has only two types of coins in her wallet, quarters and dimes. she has twice as many dimes as quarters. If the total value of the coins in her wallet is $1.35, how many quarters and dimes does she have ?
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Question 915475: Daphne has 6 fewer pennies than nickles and 6 more quarters than nickles. Which coin does she have the most?

Bob can mow the lawn in 4 hours. In one hour, how much of the lawn can he mow?
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Question 915527: Carole has 70 dimes and quarters. Her quarters are worth as much as her dimes. How many quarters does she have?
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Question 915626: One fourth of Sue's coins are quarters and the rest are nickels. If the total value of the coins is $7.20, how many of each type does she have?
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Question 915842: how many dimes and nickles equal 7.05
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Question 915908: How many quarters equal ten thousand pennies?
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Question 916127: Yoshi has exactly one dollar in dimes (10 cents) and nickels (5 cents). If Yoshi has twice as many dimes as nickels how many nickels does she have?
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Question 916128: Diane delivers newspapers for $5 a day plus $0.04 per newspaper delivered. Jeremy delivers newspapers for $2 a day plus $0.10 per newspaper delivered. How many newspapers would Diane and Jeremy each need to deliver in order to earn the same amount?
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Question 916197: What is 13 nickels to 48 dimes written as a ratio reduced to lowest term?
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Question 916670: kara has 4 coins. the total value of the coins are 34cents . she also has 1 quarter and 2 pennies what is the fourth coin? wht is the answer thanks for answering also I want the truth thanks
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Question 916695: 3. Convert the following units. When converting to SI, include the appropriate prefix for the unit. Use only the conversion factors at the end of the assignment.
a.
b. 350 hp to W

Heat, Power
1 hp = 745.7 W

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Question 917170: I am stuck on this problem and need help.
You have 53 coins consisting of dimes and pennies. The number of pennies is 7 less than twice the number of dimes.
1.) How many pennies do you have?
2.) How many dimes do you have?
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Question 917379: A collection of 45 Coins consisting of five-peso and ten-peso coins has a value of 340 pesos. Find the value of number of coins for each type.
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Question 917530: your uncle has 36 coins in nickels and quarters the value of his nickels is 1/15 of the value of his quarters find the number of nickels
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Question 917650: Ernie has $3.55 in nickels and dimes. He has 14 more nickels than dimes. How many of each coin does he have?

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Question 918073: Mary collected $2.75 in nickels and dimes. Ten less than twice the number of nickels represents the number of dimes she has. How many of each kind of coin did Mary collect?
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Question 918223: A collection of quarters and nickels is worth $13.70. There are 106 coins in all.

How many of each coin are there?

quarters
nickels

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Question 917647: Paul has n quarters and twice as many dimes. What expression would represent his total number of coins.
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Question 918248: Robyn's piggy bank contains fifty coins in dimes and quarters. The coins have a total value of $8.60. Find the number of dimes and quarters in the piggy bank.
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Question 918403: A piggy bank contains 60 coins, all dimes and quarters. The total amount of money is $11.40. How many of each is there?
Please Help, I need this for my Algebra

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Question 918729: James has more dimes than quarters. If he has $7.25, how many of each coin does he have?
I have tried 10x + 25x = 725, but it doesn't seem right since he is supposed to have more dimes than quarters.
Thanks!

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Question 918721: I have a box of nickels and dimes. when I counted the money, I was surprised to see that I have exactly $10.00. then it occurred to me that if my nickels were dimes and my dimes were quarters, I would have $21.25. how many dimes and nickels are in my box?
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Question 918957: A collection of quarters and nickels is worth $14.80. There are 88 coins in all.

How many of each coin are there?

? quarters
? nickels

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Question 919186: Question: After closing down his lemonade stand, David finds that he has 3 and 1/2 times as many dimes as quarters. Their combined value is $15.60. How many dimes does he have?
This is the last question of my assignment and I have already done this question multiple times but I cannot seem to find the answer. I was told the answer was 91, but I do not understand how the answer came to be.
How is the answer 91?
Help would gladly be needed!

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Question 919506: Kendra has $3.85 in nickels and quarters. If she has 7 more quarters than nickels, how many of each coin does she have?

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Question 919856: Jose has 22 coins totaling $4.10. If all of the 22 coins are either nickles or quarters, how many of each type of coin does he have?
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Question 920238: Sally has a jar of dimes and quarters. The number of dimes is 10 more than 4 times the number of quarters. She has $7.50 in the jar. Find the number of dimes and quarters she saved.
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Question 920612: Hello, i am having problems setting up this problem that consists of coins.
1. The amount of money in a bag is $7.70. There are 62 coins consisting of nickels, dimes, and quarters. If there are three times as many dimes as nickels, how many coins of each are there?

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