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Question 439883: There are 12 coins that consist of quarters and dimes. The value of these coins is $2.25
Write a system of equations:
Solve the system of equations:
How many quarters and dimes do I have?
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Question 440880: Draw a picture to solve each problem:
Bobby has only pennies, dimes, and quarters. 1/2 of the coins are pennies, 1/4 are quarters, and 3 of the coins are dimes. How many coins doe Bobby have?
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Question 440951: A coin jar contains nickels, dimes and quarters. There are 46 coins in all. There are 11 more nickels than quarters. The value of the dimes is $1.00 less than the value of the quarters. How many coins of each type are in the jar?
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Question 442924: I know how to solve these problems arithmeticly-- in fact they're quite easy, but our teacher is requiring that we do these algebraicly and show our work, and I am lost. "A courier picks up 1000 small unmarked bills, some $20 bills and some $50 bills. If the courier has a total value of $41,000, how many of each are there?"
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Question 442998: Harold owns 36 precious coins.He wanted to divide the coins among his three children. He told one child that he wanted her to take 4/9 of the coins.He told another child that he wanted him to take 1/6 of the coins.His children met and tried to think of how they could divide the coins according to the father's wishes.How many coins should each child get?Show your work.
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Question 443749: Two trains are 500 miles apart. They start towards eachother at the same time,one's speed is 20 miles per hour faster than the other.Thet meet in 4 hours.How fast is each train going?
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Question 443751: Solve using the elimination method.Show your work. If the system has no solution or an infinite number of solutions, state this.
14x +18y= -54
-4x -14y= 42
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Question 443785: Juan has 24 coins worth $2.80. His coins are nickels, dimes and quarters. The number of dimes equals the sum of number of quarters and nickels. How many dimes does he have?
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Question 443931: i have a jar containing 60 coins all of which are either quarters or nickels. the total value of the coins in the jar is $9.20. How many of each type of coin do i have?
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Question 443974: how many nickels dimes and quarters make up $4.50
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Question 443746: A coin collection consists of 14 coins with a total value of $1.35. The coins are nickels,dimes,and quarters. If the number of nickles is three less than twice the number of dimes,how many of each coin is there in the collection?
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Question 444778: I have two coin problems that I need to do. I have tried all day and can't seem to get them.
1. Nick had 67.50 in pennies and dimes. If there were 150 more pennies than dimes, how many dimes dos he have?
2.Virgina and millie saved nickels and dimes. They had a totel of 34 coins whose value was 2.70. How many of each did they have?
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Question 445908: a toy savings bank contains $17.30 consisting of nickels, dimes and quarters. the number of dimes exceeds twice the number of nickels by 3 and the number of quarters is 4 less than 5 times the number of nickels. how many quarters are in the bank?
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Question 446555: A jar of dimes and quarters contains $1.25. There are 13 coins in all. How many of each are there?
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Question 446558: A vending machine takes only nickles and dimes. At the end of the day there were three times as many nickles as dimes and a total of $25. How many of each were in the machine?
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Question 447566: how many ways can .30 be made with fewer than 14 coins?
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Question 447885: a man goes to the bank with $6.00 and asks for change.he is given an equal number of nickels,dimes,and quarters.how many of each is he given
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Question 448734: A man has two more nickels than dimes. He has $1.15 in all. How many coins of each kind does he have? Which equation can be used to solve the problem?
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Question 449388: How much money would you have if you had 13 quarters, 13 nickels, 13 dimes, and 13 pennies?
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Question 450659: There were 16 more nickels than dimes in the purse. if there were 100 coins total, how many nickels were there?
Please answer my question this would be very helpful to me.
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Question 450986: an unbiased coin is tossed 5 times. what is the probability the coin lands heads more than once
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Question 451175: a change machine changes dollars bills into quarters and nickels. if you recieve 12 coins after inserting a dollar bill, how many nickels did you receive?
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Question 451523: A bag contains dimes & nickels. There are 21 coins in the bag. The value of the coins is $1.70. How many of each coin is in the bag?
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Question 451638: Kent Jones had $1.95 consisting of 7 U.S. coins. However, he cannot make change for a nickel or a half-dollar. What 7 coins does Kent have?
I am having a problem with this, please help me.
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Question 451343: Julian has 10 coins . Sue has 6 coins . There is a total of 6 quarters Sue has more than 1 dollar. Sues coins are worth twice as much as julians coins. How much money does Julian have.? How much money does Sue have?
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Question 451731: A large ceramic piggy bank has 102 coins in it: 75 pennies, 8 nickels, 12 dimes, and 7 quarters. It is equally likely that any one of the 102 coins will fall out when the piggy bank is turned upside down and shaken. What is the probability that the coin shaken out will either be a penny or a dime?

A. 0.92 B. 0.07 C. 0.70 D. 0.85 E. None of the above
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Question 452610: There are 96 coins consisting of pennies,dimes, and quarters. the number of pennies is equal to the number of dimes and the total value is $22.05. How many coins of each tyoe are there?
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Question 453358: There are 30 coins made up of quarters, dimes and nickles. There are 5 more nickles than dimes and 5 fewer quarters than dimes. What is the quantity of each of the coins?
Question: How is this set up algebraically?
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Question 453640: In a coin collection there are 9 pennies, 8 nickels, 12 dimes, 16 quarters, 11 half-dollars and 4 dollar pieces. A coin is randomly selected from the collection by a blind folded boy who gets to keep the coin picked. What is the expected value?
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Question 453780: A jar containing only quarters and dimes. Contains a total of 65 coins. The value of all the coins. In the jar is 9.95. Solve by elimination to find the amount. If dimes that are in the jsr
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Question 453752: How do you get $180 using 12 bills
With only 5$ and 20$ dollar bill ?
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Question 452611: There are 96 coins consisting of pennies,dimes, and quarters. the number of pennies is equal to the number of dimes and the total value is $22.05. How many coins of each type are there?
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Question 450996: copyqwik has four photocopy machines a,b,c,d. the probability that a given machine will break down on a particular day is p(a)=1/50 p(b)= 1/60 p(c)= 1/75 p(d)= 1/50. Assuming independance what is the probability on a particular day that all 4 machines will break down? and none will break down?
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Question 427013: I have $2.25 in dimes an quarters. I have two more quarters than dimes. Howmany quarters an dimes do I have
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Question 426777: sam has a total of 28 coins in his piggy bank consisting of dimes and quarters If he has $4.30 in his bank how many quarters does he have?
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Question 454388: Mrs. Sanders had 80 coins. Some of them were $1 coins, rest were 50 cent coins. The total amount is $50. How many coins of each kind were there?
Thank you!!!

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Question 454215: a collection of 102 nickels, dimes, and quarters is worth $13.60. There are 14 more nickels than dimes, how many quarters are there?
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Question 450086:
Kim has $1.65 in nickels, dimes and quarters. She has 10 coins all together and the number of quarters is equal to the number of nickels and dimes combined. Haw many of each coin does she have?
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Question 426676: Linda has 18 quarters,12 dimes, and 7 pennies. She wants to make a pattern of quarter. quarter, penny, dime, and quarter. How many of these patterns can she make? explain.
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Question 426689: A student had 100 coins totalling $7.00.
He had no nickels.
What coins did he have if 60% of the coins were of one kind?
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Question 425354: I have $5.00 in nickels, dimes, and quarters. I have 3 times as many nickels as dimes. I have 5 times as much money in quarters as I do in nickels. How many of each coin do I have?
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Question 427764: Two investments totaling $42,500 produce an annual income of $3055. One investment yields 5% a year, while the other yields 8%. How much is invested at each rate?
5% ______
8% ______
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Question 428023: Mary has $2.15 in change consisting of 11 more dimes than nickels. Find the number of nickels and dimes. how do you set up this problem and solve it?
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