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Question 1016669: A jar contains 70 coins, all of which are nickels and
dimes. The total value of the coins in the jar is $5.70.
How many nickels / dimes are in the jar?
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Question 1016554: A local boys club sold 176 bags of mulch and made a total of 510. It sold two types of mulch: hardwood for 3.25 a bag and pine for 2.75 a bag. How many bags of each kind of mulch did it sell
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Question 1017023: A man has $0.70 in dimes and nickels. He has 8 coins altogether. How many nickels does he have?

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Question 1017064: The total value of the quarters and dimes in a coin bank is $6.95. If the quarters were dimes and the dimes were quarters, the total value of the coins would be $7.40. Find the number of quarters in the bank.
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Question 1017070: The sum of the ages of a gold coin and a silver coin is 60 years. The age of the gold coin 10 years from now will be 5 years less than the age of the silver coin 15 years ago. Find the present ages of the two coins.
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Question 1017179: If I want to collect 20 coins and I have 3 what percentage do I have?
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Question 1017190: Sydney is a cashier at the grocery store. She has a total of $56 in loonies and toonies. She has 36 coins. How many coins of each type does she have?
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Question 1017192: Find the quadratic relation in vertex form that:
Is defined by y=2x(squared)+12x-17
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Question 1017226: A man has 30 coins in his pocket, all of which are dimes and quarters. If the total value of his change is 465 cents, how many dimes and how many quarters does he have?
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Question 1017399: Rob has 40 coins, all dimes and quarters, worth $7.60. How many dimes and how many quarters does he have?
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Question 1017399: Rob has 40 coins, all dimes and quarters, worth $7.60. How many dimes and how many quarters does he have?
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Question 1017781: A jar has only nickles and dimes. There are three times as many nickles as dimes and a total of $25. How many of each coin are in the jar?
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Question 1017757: In a group of quarters and nickels, there are four more nickels than quarters. How many nickels and quarters are there if the coins are worth $2.30?

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Question 1018098: There are x dimes and y nickels in bag A and y dimes and x nickels in bag B.
The total value of the coins is the same for both bags. The combined number of coins in the 2 bags cannot be:
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 60 (D) 80 (E) 100

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Question 1018153: If a piggy bank contains only 50p coins and 25p coins. There are four times as many as 50p coins as there are 25p coins if all the money in the piggy bank adds up 1080 rupees find the number of 50p coins in it
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Question 1018240: Jim has 19 quarters.Mathew has 18 pennies.Jayleen has 10 nickels.Daznet has 18 dimes. Who much coins are there in all ?
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Question 1018239: I have 19 quarters and 18 pennies and 10 nickels and 18 dimes. What is the total?

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Question 1018659: Use a unit multiplier to convert 1200 feet per minute to feet per second

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Question 1018765: Jane has $13.25 in nickels and quarters. If she has 165 coins in all< how many of each type of coin does she have??

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Question 1018749: Alice has a total of 12 dimes and nickels. She has 2 more nickels than dimes. Which equation represents the given problem situation?
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Question 1019211: Some coins (dimes and nickels) are in a pile. The total value of the pile is $1.35. The number of buckles is one coin less than twice the number of dimes. Finds the number of each type of coin.
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Question 1019184: Lanc� has 8 coins un her pocket They aded up to 0.58. What coins did he have

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Question 1019631: Okay so there are 22 coins totaling $1.55 in nickels and dimes. So how many dimes and how many nickeles are there!

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Question 1019635: A shopkeeper sold 16 articles for total of $400 and made a profit of $48.00. How much did each article cost him?
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Question 1019934: Bobby has a pile of dimes and quarters from his coin
jar.
a. In total, Bobby has $24.90. Write an equation in
which the number of quarters, q, and number of
dimes, d, add up to $24.90.
b. If Bobby had 15 more dimes he would the same
amount of dimes as triple the amount of his
quarters. Write another equation for this
situation with q representing the number of
quarters that Bobby has and d representing the
number of dimes he has.
c. Use substitution to solve this system of
equations for the number of quarters and dimes
Bobby has.
d. Explain how you would check your answer in c.
e. Graph your equations in part a) and b). Be sure
you show the point of intersection. What does
this point of intersection mean in the context of
this problem?
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Question 1020091: Paul needs 34 cents. He has only dimes and pennies. How
Many different ways can he make 34 cents using both
Kinds of coin? Explain.
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Question 1020123: a coin purse is full of $9.65 worth of quarters and dimes. there are 56 coins in the purse. how many quarters and dimes are there?
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Question 1020123: a coin purse is full of $9.65 worth of quarters and dimes. there are 56 coins in the purse. how many quarters and dimes are there?
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Question 1020151: Kendra has $7.70in dimes and quarters . If she has 4 times as many quarters as dimes , how many of each coin does she have ?
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Question 1020169: joe has twice as much money as Ada,who has half as much as Oli has. if together they own $ 5.25 how much does each of them have?

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Question 1020274: Kevin and Randy have a jar containing 45 coins all of which are either quarters or nickels. The total value of coins in the jAr is $8.45. How many of each type of coin do they have
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Question 1020279: I have 28 silver colored coins that amount to $2.80 in my pocket. Three times the number of nickels plus the number of quarters is the same as the number of dimes. How many of each type of coin do I have in my pocket?
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Question 1020534: A box contains 72 coins, only dimes and nickels. The amount of money in the box is $5.50. How many dimes and how many buckles are in the box?
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Question 1020549: Jane had 12 coins in her purse that have a total of $1. If these coins consist of nickels and dimes, how many of each does she have?
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Question 1020627: He prrimeter of a rectangleis 122 in.and its area is 768 sq in. Find the dimension.A man has 14 voins in his pocket,all of which are dimes and quarters. If the total value of his money is $2.27,how many dimes and quaters does he have?
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Question 1020609: The total number of coins in a box is 312. The number of dimes is three times the number of nickels and quarters together. If the box has 31 dollars and 50 cents find the number of nickels, dimes and quarters
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Question 1020802: Harry has 15 coins in nickels and dimes if the total is 1.20 how much of each coin does he have ?
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Question 1021089: a coin bank containes dimes and quarters there are 22 coins in the bank with a value of $3.25 how many dimes and how many quarters
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Question 1021102: George has $60.80 in quarters and dimes. He has five times as many quarters as he has dimes. How many of each coin does he have?
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Question 1020823: Gwynedd's piggy bank contains 57 quarters, 24 dimes, 35 nickels, and 60 pennies. Gwynedd turns her piggy bank over and one coin falls out. What is the probability that the coin will be worth more than 5 cents?
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a. What is the probability that the coin is a quarter or dime? *solved already: 81/176*
b. What is the probability that the coin is a quarter or worth more than five cents?
c. Explain how the previous two answers are related.
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Question 1021275: I have a jar filled with $100 worth of quarters, nickels, and dimes.   I have the same amount of each type of coin. How many total coins do I have in my jar
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Question 1021328: A collection of coins has a total value of 64 cents. There are two more nickels than dimes and three
times as many pennies as dimes. How many of each kind of coin are there?

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Question 1021326: How many nickels and penny's are used to make up $4.75. Using only 175 coins.
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