Question 1117412: clara has three times as quarters as half dollars. The coins total is $12.50. How many of each coin does she have? Answer by ikleyn(52848) (Show Source):
She can group the coins in sets each containing 3 quarters and one half-dollar.
Then each set is worth 3*25 + 50 = 125 cents, correct ?
Hence, the number of these sets is = 10.
Therefore, there are 10 half-dollars and 30 quarters in the collection.
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