Question 451519: Becky has 20 coins; some are quarters and the rest are dimes. The total vaue of the coins is $3.65. Find the number of each kind of coin. Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the number of quarters. Then must be the number of dimes. The value of the quarters is cents, and the value of the dimes is , and the sum of these two values must be the total amount of money, $3.65, which is to say 365 cents so as to express everything in the same units.
Just solve for
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
