SOLUTION: Two people have the same number of coins. They have 16 coins each. one person has a third as many nickels and two times as many dimes. How many coins and nickels does the other per

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Question 1073496: Two people have the same number of coins. They have 16 coins each. one person has a third as many nickels and two times as many dimes. How many coins and nickels does the other person have ?
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, josgarithmetic:
Answer by ikleyn(52875) (Show Source):
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The question is not relevant to the "given" part.

The "given" part is not relevant to the question.

We only can say that the other person has 16 coins in all.

Answer by josgarithmetic(39629) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The part going as, "one person has a third as many nickels and two times as many dimes", is imprecise. If the phrasing, "compared to the other person", is added to the end of that sentence, THEN the description is clear enough. ... and MAYBE the question can be solved.

Two persons named x and y;
each has 16 coins consisting of nickels and dimes.

Person y has n nickels and d dimes.
Person x has n/3 nickels and 2d dimes.
The sum of each those coin collections is 16.
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Can you find a meaningful solution for this system?
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NO. THIS SYSTEM WILL NOT WORK. THE SOLUTION WILL NOT BE INTEGER VALUES FOR n AND d.