SOLUTION: You have a pile of coins. If you had one more penny, the number of pennies would be half the number of nickels. There is just 1 more nickel than dimes. If you had 3 more quarters t
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Question 802580: You have a pile of coins. If you had one more penny, the number of pennies would be half the number of nickels. There is just 1 more nickel than dimes. If you had 3 more quarters there would be as many quarters as all other coins combined. The value of the coins is $8. How many dimes?
This is all I got out of this: 1/2N=P+1, N=2P+1, D=N-1, N=D+1, D+N+P=Q+3 Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! (1)
(2)
(3)
(4) ( in cents )
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I can get (4) in terms of just nickels
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and
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and
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and
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Multiply both sides by
(4)
(4)
(4)
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and
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There are 11 dimes
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check:
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(1)
(1)
and
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and
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(4)
(4)
OK
