SOLUTION: You have $2.32 in change made up of only pennies, dimes, and nickels. You have twice as many dimes as nuckels and twice as many pennies as dimes. How many pennies,dimes, and nickel

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Question 224337: You have $2.32 in change made up of only pennies, dimes, and nickels. You have twice as many dimes as nuckels and twice as many pennies as dimes. How many pennies,dimes, and nickels do you have?
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Let be the number of nickels. Then is the number of dimes because there are twice as many dimes as nickels. And there are pennies because there are twice as many dimes as pennies.

The value of pennies is dollars. The value of dimes is dollars. The value of nickels is

The total value of all the coins is $2.32, so:



Just solve for to get the number of nickels, then the rest should be simple.

John