SOLUTION: A youth organization collected nickels and dimes for a charity drive. By the end of the 1-day drive, the youth had collected $56.35. IF there were three times as many dimes as ni
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Question 263865: A youth organization collected nickels and dimes for a charity drive. By the end of the 1-day drive, the youth had collected $56.35. IF there were three times as many dimes as nickels, how many of each type of coin was collected? Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
Let represent the number of nickels. Then has to be the number of dimes. The value of the nickels is cents and the value of the dimes is cents. The total amount of money is 5635 cents, so:
Just solve for to get the number of nickels, then times three for the number of dimes.
