SOLUTION: coin bank contains twice as many nickels as dimes and five times as many pennies as dimes. the value of the connection is $2.00 . how many pennies nickles and dimes are in the col

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Question 333291: coin bank contains twice as many nickels as dimes and five times as many pennies as dimes. the value of the connection is $2.00 . how many pennies nickles and dimes are in the collection?
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
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let dimes be x
nickels will be 2x
pennies will be 5x
5x+5*2x+10x=200
5x+10x+10x=200
25x= 200
x= 8 dimes
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pennies = 5x = 40
nickels = 2*8=16
..
CHECK
40+16*5+8*10
=40+80+80
= 200