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Question 1001665: In a box there are 140 coins (dimes and nickels). The total value of all the coins together is $11.15. How many of each type of coin are in the box?
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Question 1001809: What are all the ways to make change for a dollar using quarters, half-dollars, dimes, and nickels?
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Question 1001934: If 1/3 of Emily's money is equal to 2/5 of Katie's money, and Katie has $24.50 less than Emily, how much money do the the two sisters have together?

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Question 1002117: A lady went to bank with Rs.100,000. She asked the cashier to give her Rs. 500 and Rs.1000 currency notes in return. She got 175 currency notes in all. Find the number of each kinf of currency notes with her.
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Question 1002118: A pop machine contains nickels, dimes and quarters worth 112.25. There are three times as many quarters as there are dimes and 85 more nickels than dimes. How many of each coin are there? Let statement is needed.
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Question 1002136: At a peculiar fruit stand, 3 kiwis costs $21.39 minus the cost of 6 grapefruits, and 5 kiwis and 6 grapefruits costs $34.69. What is the cost of each fruit?

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Question 1002157: Jacques has a number of 10c 20c and 5c coins in his bag.
He has one more 20c coin than 10c coins but 3 fewer 5c coins
than 20c coins. How many 20c coins does he have ?
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Question 1002353: melisa came to the bank to make a deposit of loose change in her checking account. The total she deposited was $10.19. There were 71 coins in total. Those coins being quarters, dimes and pennies. The amount of pennies was twice the amount of dimes. How many of each coin is there?
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Question 1002449: Diana has 4 coins in her pocket;a quarter,nickel,dime and a penny.Make a list of all the possible combinations of pulling 2 coins out. (There are 7 possibilities)

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Question 1002609: Daniel has three coins whose total value is $0.56. Find the number of coins in each denomination
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Question 1002654: Laura, Ravi, and Joe have a total of
$83
in their wallets. Joe has
3
times what Laura has. Ravi has
$8
more than Laura. How much does each have?
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Question 1002727: If theres 20 bags of chips in the total cost of $6.98 and how much does each bag cost
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Question 1002802: A piggy bank contains nickels, dimes, and quarters. If there are a total of fourteen coins, the value of the nickels is equal to the value of the dimes, and the entire set is worth a total of $1.30, how many nickels are there?
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Question 1002799: a purse contains $2.45 in dimes and quarters there are 2 more than twice as many dimes as quarters how many of each coin is in the purse?
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Question 1002912: How many nickels in $6.45
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Question 1003054: If you have 144 quarters how many dimes do you have?
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Question 1003074: An anna is an Indian coin
equivalent to one sixteenth of a rupee.
How many rupees equal 45 annas?
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Question 1003110: A pile of 42 coins worth $4.90, consisting of nickels and quarters. How many nickels are there?
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Question 1003075: Mike has $9.85 in dimes and quarters. If there are 58 coins altogether, how many dimes and quarters does mike have?

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Question 1003178: I have a total of 35 bills in my pocket that are worth $530. They are all either $10 bills or $20 bills. How many more $20 bills do I have than $10 bills?
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Question 1003406: A restaurant owner estimates that she needs in small change the same number of dimes as pennies and nickels together and the same number of pennies as nickels.If she gets $26 worth of pennies, nickels, and dimes, how should they be distributed?
a) Write the equations using p(pennies), n(nickels) and d(dimes) only

b) Solve the equations for the variables p, n and d. Show your work
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Question 1003523: There are five dimes you leave 2 and take 3 how much money you have?
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Question 1003696: Sarah has 20 coins consisting of nickles and quarters. If the sum is $4.80, how many nickles and quarters does Sarah have?

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Question 1004233: Bill has $2.15 in quarters and nickels. The number of quarters is 1 less than 3 times the number of nickels. Find the number of coins of each type
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Question 1004234: Word Problem: Coins
Jon has $1.15 in dimes and nickels. the number of nickels is 5 less than twice the number of dimes. Find the number of each type of coin.
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Question 1004451: I need to no four ways to make 11.78 out of only 65 coins
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Question 1004565: Solve the following using system of equations
A collection of dimes and nickels is worth 2.80$ . There are 38 coins in all. How many of each are there?
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Question 1004759: Eric has $1.00 worth of nickles. He counted the value of his nickles by 5s to 100
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Question 1004878: A cash drawer contains 160 bills, all 10s and 50s. If the total value of the 10s and 50s is $1,760. How many of each type of bill are in the drawer? Set up the linear system for this problem and solve it.
Find the number of $50 bills.
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Question 1004955: A soft drink costs $1.65, and each refill for the drink costs $0.95. If you have $4.50, how many refills can you purchase?
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Question 1005063: Kathryn put her nickels and dimes in a piggy bank. One day she emptied it and counted 25 coins, which totaled $2.05. Using a linear system, how many dimes did Kathryn have?
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Question 1004953: jim has six american coins that total $1.15. with his coins , jim cannot give ann exact change for a dollar. he cannot give tim exact change for a fifty-cent piece. he cannot give sean change for a quarter, or jill change for a dime, or cindy change for a nickel. what are jim's coins?
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Question 1005392: How can a bill of $6.00 be paid with half-dollars and quarters by using the same numbers of each?
I understand the concept of the number of coins x value of coin = total value, but I don't know what to write for the equation if two numbers are said to be EQUAL VALUES, for example, I tried to write a term "h=q" to represent that the number of half-dollars equal the number of quarters. But when I put that into equation form, it does not make sense. What can I do to solve this properly?
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Question 1005405: Rita has a collection of 82 dimes and nickels worth $6.65. How many nickels does she have?

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Question 1005626: If I have two and a half dozen coins that total 20 cents.
What are the coins?
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Question 1005736: Angelita has 5 more dollar bills than quarters. Her money totals 21.25 dollars. How many of each does she have?

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Question 1005638: A sumof$1.24� is made up of 5cent coins and1 cent coins. There are six times more 5cent coins as there are 1 cent coins find the number of 5cent coins .
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Question 1005780: Tim's piggy bank contains dimes and nickels worth $6.15. He has 77 coins in all. How many of each coin does Tim have?
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Question 1005964: Dan has twice as much money in nickels as he does in quarters. He has 33 coins in all. How much money does he have?
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Question 1006048: A collection of nickels, dimes, and quarters consist of 100 coins with a total of $10.25 . If there are 3 times as many dimes as quarters, find the number of each type of coins.

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Question 1006046: John has $1.50 in nickels and dimes in his pocket. He has three more nickels than he does dimes. How many of each does he have?
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Question 1006046: John has $1.50 in nickels and dimes in his pocket. He has three more nickels than he does dimes. How many of each does he have?
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