SOLUTION: Alycia opens her piggy bank to find only dimes and quarters inside. She counts the coins and finds that she has 36 coins totaling ​$5.85. How many dimes were in the piggy&#82

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Question 1038744: Alycia opens her piggy bank to find only dimes and quarters inside. She counts the coins and finds that she has 36 coins totaling ​$5.85. How many dimes were in the piggy​ bank, and how many quarters were in​ there?
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Alycia opens her piggy bank to find only dimes and quarters inside. She counts the coins and finds that she has 36 coins
totaling $5.85. How many dimes were in the piggy bank, and how many quarters were in there?
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