SOLUTION: Jane has $776 in ten-dollar, five-dollar, and one-dollar bills. There are 135 bills in all. There are 25 more ten-dollar bills than five-dollar bills. How many bills of each kind d

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Question 986112: Jane has $776 in ten-dollar, five-dollar, and one-dollar bills. There are 135 bills in all. There are 25 more ten-dollar bills than five-dollar bills. How many bills of each kind does Jane have?
(Enter the number of bills as an ordered triple.)
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Let represent the number of one dollar bills, represent the number of 5 dollar bills, and represent the number of ten dollar bills. Then, from the given information, the following statements are true:







Solve the 3X3 system for , , and .

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