SOLUTION: If a bag of coins contains 400 coins and 33 1/3% are nickles how many nickles are there

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Question 1201489: If a bag of coins contains 400 coins and 33 1/3% are nickles how many nickles are there


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0.333333... * 400 = 133.333333...
This is nonintegral, so you decide, or, perhaps your teacher is presenting this as a trick problem?