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Question 806797: My daughter is looking to buy a rare 1/2 cent coin. My husband says since it now costs $50 that it has increased in value by 10000 times. I disagree and say its a 5000% increase in value. A dinner rides on the answer.
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Question 806814: In a pile of coins there are 7 more quarters than nickels.if there is a total of $$2.56 in coins how many quarters are there?
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Question 806814: In a pile of coins there are 7 more quarters than nickels.if there is a total of $$2.56 in coins how many quarters are there?
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Question 807120: Amy had a nickel, a dime, a quarter, a half dollar, and a silver dollar. After she lost one coin, she had exactly seven times as much money as her brother had. Which coin did she lose? I'm thinking 5-a=7b?

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Question 807130: What is 5.000/18? I don't know long division. Help please.

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Question 807224: Amber has 20.65 in quarters and pennies. Amber has fifteen more pennies than quarters. How many of each coin does she have
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Question 807224: Amber has 20.65 in quarters and pennies. Amber has fifteen more pennies than quarters. How many of each coin does she have
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Question 807674: If someone has 34 of something and someone else has twice as many how many do they both have in all?
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Question 807682: 10 coins with 1.90
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Question 807682: 10 coins with 1.90
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Question 807676: Nancy and Kerry have the same number of coins. Nancy has only dimes and Kerry has only quarters. If Kerry has $3 than Nancy, how much money does Nancy have ?
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Question 807704: A cashier has 90 dimes and Nickels in a cash drawer. If the total is 6.40, how many nickel's are in the drawer? I divided 90 into 640 my answer 2 nickels.
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Question 807925: In a collection of coins, the number of quarters is twice the number of dimes and the number of nickels is five less than the number of dimes. How many type of each coin are in the collection, if the total amount of money is $9.50?
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Question 807964: In a jar of coins in which 35% of the coins are pennies, 50% of the pennies were minted before 1975. If there are 245 pennies minted before 1975 in the jar, what is the total number of coins in the jar?
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Question 808297: Ava has 52 coins. The value of her coins (only dimes and nickels) is $4.15. Find the number of nickels and the number of dimes.
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Question 808326: You have quarters and nickels in your pocket with a total value of $1.10. There are more quarters than nickels. How many of each coin do you have?
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Question 808536: A youth organization collected nickels and dimes for a charity drive. By the end of the 1st day drive the youth had collected 42.35, If there were 3 times as many dimes as nickels how many of each type of coin was collected?
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Question 808513: I have twice as many nickels as I do quarters. If together they add up to $4.90, how much quarters and nickels do I have? I need to write an equation that represents the problem and then solve it. Please help I can't figure it out, the equation is the hard part
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Question 808758: I have 19 coins in my pocket. I have twice as many dimes as nickles, three more pennies than nickels and one more dime than the number of pennies. My coins add up to $1.07. How many of each coin do I have?
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Question 808827: mary has 3.50 in change. she has twice as many nickles as quarters. she has one fewer dime than she has quarter. how many of each coin does she have
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Question 808802: Mrs. Sanders had 80 coins. Some of them were $1.00 coins and the rest were .50 cent coins. The total amount added up to $50.00. How many coins of each kind were there?
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Question 808921: Paula has 30 coins in dimes and quarters. Their total value is $4.50. How many coins of each type does she have?

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Question 808963: Aura has 8 coins worth $1.80. If the coins are all quarters and nickels, how many quarters and nickels does she have?
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Question 808979: If you need to give a customer $7.94 in change using as few coins as possible, how many dimes should you give the customer?
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Question 809386: Miguel earned $2,500 from his summer job at the grocery store. This is $350 more than twice what his friend Todd earned. How much did Todd earn from his summer job?
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Question 809674: A parking meter takes only dimes and quarters. At the end of the day, the meter held $6.25 and contained a total of 46 coins. What was the number of dimes and quarters?
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Question 809224: How many different ways can you make $2.25 from 9 quarters, 2 dimes, 2 nickles, and 6 pennies?
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Question 809082: A bag contains 40 coins, all of them either $2 coins or $5 coins. The total value of money in the bag is $155. Find out how many of each kind of coin is in the bag?
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Question 807733: Carlos has $5.20 in dimes and quarters. He has one fourth as many quarters as dimes. How many of each coin does he have?
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Question 809761: Your pocket contains 10 coins and is a combination of nickels and dimes. The sum of the coins is 60 cents. How would you solve this???
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Question 809835: algebra 1 : system problem - suppose you have 15 coins that total 35 cents. some coins are nickels and the rest are pennies. how many of each do you have?
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Question 809799: tommy has a collection of coins worth $5.20 he has 8 more nickles than quarters ho many of each does he have?
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Question 810277: A jar of 13 coins has $1.25 in it. The coins are nickels and quarters. How many of each do I have?
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Question 810285: Kathy has saved 32 quarters and 4 times as many dimes. How many dimes has Kathy saved?
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Question 810285: Kathy has saved 32 quarters and 4 times as many dimes. How many dimes has Kathy saved?
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Question 810501: A parking meter contains dimes and quarters worth $5.05. There are 28 coins in all. Find how many of each there are are.

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Question 810501: A parking meter contains dimes and quarters worth $5.05. There are 28 coins in all. Find how many of each there are are.

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Question 810589: a jar has $3.60 in nickels and quarters. There are 28 coins in all. How many of each coin is in the jar?
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Question 810645: A collection of 75 dimes and quarters is worth $13.65. How many of each coim are there? Solbe by using weighted averages.
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Question 810692: Katie has a collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters with a total value of $4.95. There are 9 more dimes than nickels and 5 more quarters than nickels. How many of each coin is in her collection?
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Question 811231: the council wants to buy total of 45 volleyball and basketballs, council has 435$ to spent.
volley = 8$
basket =11$ how many of each type can be purchased?
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Question 811274: the council wants to buy total of 45 volleyball and basketballs, council has 435$ to spent.

volley = 8$ basket =11$ how many of each type can be purchased?
please explain each step clearly because I'm confused on part 8(-y45)+11y = 435??

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Question 811707: How many nickels are in d dollars?
n*5=100d
100d/5=20

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