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Question 1136130: £810 is divided between Paul, Brian & Colin so that Paul gets twice as much as Brian, and Brian gets three times as much as Colin. How much does Brian get
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Question 1136813: If Sam has 2 times as many dimes as nickels and they have a combined value of 125 cents, how many of each coin does he have?
how many nickels?
how many dimes?
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Question 1136811: If Diego has 15 nickels and dimes in his pocket, and they have a combined value of 110 cents, how many of each coin does he have?

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Question 1136814: in a collection of coins there were twelve fewer dimes than nickels and six times as many quarters as the sum of the nickels and dimes. if the collection of coins was worth 43.80, how many of each kind of coin are there?
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Question 1136812: If Alexis has 3 more dimes than nickels and they have a combined value of 150 cents, how many of each coin does she have?
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Question 1136832: If Luis has 16 dimes and nickels in his pocket, and they have a combined value of 115 cents, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 1136910: If Jason has 12 nickels and quarters in his pocket, and they have a combined value of 200 cents, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 1137102: Breanna has quarters, dimes, and nickels in her purse. She has 3 fewer nickels than dimes, but she has 2 more nickels than quarters. If breanna has 2 quarters, how much money does she have ?
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Question 1137180: Manny is always looking for coins lost on the playground. He has a collection of 72 coins, all nickels and dimes, that totals $6.20. What is the total amount of money he has found in dimes?
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Question 1137304: Peter has been saving his loose change for several days. When he counted his quarters and dimes, he found they had a total value of $13.10. The number of quarters was 15 more than 3 times the number of dimes. How many quarters and how many dimes did Peter have?
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Question 1137478: Jane has 43 cents.she had 8 coins.find the coins and the number of each that jane has.
Grade 6 book page 115 answer
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Question 1137966: Marysia has saved $48.75 in nickels and loonies. If she has 3 nickels fewer than three dash eighths the number of loonies, how many coins of each type does Marysia have?
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Question 1138285: There are 21 coins in a jar consisting of quarters nickels and dimes. If there are twice as many dimes as nickels and there is a total of $2.75 in the jar, how many of each coin are there?
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Question 1138530: Martha's schoolmates presented to her a bracelet costing 48 pesos for her eighteenth birthday. If three more friends had contributed, the cost to each would have been halved. How many friends bought the gift?
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Question 1138531: A pet shop bought a litter of puppies for 120 pesos. All but four of them were sold, at a profit of 5 pesos each, for a total of 120 pesos. How many puppies were in the litter?
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Question 1138528: A pet shop bought a litter of puppies for 120 pesos. All but four of them were sold, at a profit of 5 pesos each, for a total of 120 pesos. How many puppies were in the litter?
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Question 1138527: Mr. Lopez has two sums of money earning interests, one at 3%, the other at 4%. His annual income from the two investment is 410 pesos. If he could get 4% on all of his money this income would be 480 pesos. How much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 1138525: Mr. Lopez has two sums of money earning interests, one at 3%, the other at 4%. His annual income from the two investment is 410 pesos. If he could get 4% on all of his money this income would be 480 pesos. How much did he invest at each rate?
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Question 1138526: A man has 2,500 pesos to invest, divides his money between a building and loan corporation paying 6%, and a savings bank which pays 5%. If his money earns him 141 pesos each year, how much did he invest at each place?
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Question 1138523: A man has 2,500 pesos to invest, divides his money between a building and loan corporation paying 6%, and a savings bank which pays 5%. If his money earns him 141 pesos each year, how much did he invest at each place?
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Question 1138532: An ice cream parlor has one size of ice-cream cone for 7 cents and another for a cents. One afternoon when the smaller cones outsold the larger ones two to one, the sale totaled 6.21 pesos. How many cones of each size were sold?
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Question 1138560: A bag contains 39 coins, all nickels and quarters. The total value of the coins in the bag is $6.35. How many of the coins are nickels?
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Question 1138581: I have a pile of 20 dimes and quarters totaling $2.75. How many quarters do I have? Only algebraic solutions will be accepted.
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Question 1138598: A clock has a circumference of 166cm. What is the diameter?
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Question 1138522: Ben was describing his coin collection to his friends. He said I have 1.45 pesos more in 5 centavos (nickels) than in 10 centavos (dimes). Ii I had two 5 centavos (nickels) less, I would have 5 times as many 5 centavo (nickels) as 10 centavos (dimes). How many coins of each kind does he have?
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Question 1138693: An ice-cream parlor has one size of ice-cream cone for 7 cents and another for a cents. One afternoon when the smaller cones outsold the larger ones two to one, the sale totaled 6.21 pesos. How many cones of each size were sold?
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Question 1138695: The executive committee of a corporation granted a bonus of 4,800 pesos to be divided between two of its most deserving employees, with the senior of the two receiving 1,100 pesos more than the other. How much did each man receive?
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Question 1138969: Kevin and randy Muise have a jar containing 53 coins, all of which are eathir quarters or nickels. The total value of the coins in the jar is $6.05. How many of each type of coin do they have?
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Question 1139107: Gaby's piggy bank contains quarters and nickels worth $13.60. If she has 84 coins in all, how many of each does she have?

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Question 1139137: 16 coins in his pocket. He has both dimes and quarters. If he has $2.20 in his pocket, how many of each coin does he have?
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Question 1139180: Two numbers are in the ratio of 5:3. If the smaller number is increased by 11 the ratio becomes 4:3. What are the numbers?
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Question 1139180: Two numbers are in the ratio of 5:3. If the smaller number is increased by 11 the ratio becomes 4:3. What are the numbers?
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Question 1139188: Evan went on a bike ride of 120 miles. He realized that if he had gone 18 mph faster, he would have arrived 15 hours sooner. How fast did he actually ride?

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Question 1139187: A farmer bought a number of pigs for $200. However, 4 of them died before he could sell the rest at a profit of 7 per pig. His total profit was $72. How many pigs did he originally buy?

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Question 1139185: The admission fee at an amusement park is $1.25 for children and $6.40 for adults. On a certain day, 333 people entered the park, and the admission fees collected totaled 1163 dollars. How many children and how many adults were admitted?

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