ayana has $2.35 in nickels and dimes

[ambyboo]

ayana has $2.35 in nickels and dimes. If she has 33 coins in all, find the number of nickels and dimes.

 

[Denis]

SAME way as with your adult/student tickets problem...

 

[Mrspi]

ayana has $2.35 in nickels and dimes. If she has 33 coins in all, find the number of nickels and dimes.

You've posted a couple of other, similar, problems.

From the answers you've received, you should now realize that

1) You need to define variables to represent the "unknown" quantities in your problem. In this problem, there are TWO things not known: the number of nickels, and the number of dimes.

So, it seems reasonable to do something like this:

let n = number of nickels
let d = number of dimes

2) See if you can use the facts from the problem to write equations.

The problem says that there are 33 coins in all. So,
n + d = 33

The problem also says that the value of all the coins is $2.35, or 235 cents.

n nickels are worth a total of 5n cents. d dimes are worth a total of 10d cents. If the value of the coins is 235 cents,

5n + 10d = 235

3) Solve the resulting equation or system of equations. You have a system of two equations in two variables:

n + d = 33
5n + 10d = 235

It just takes a bit of thought to do this process.

 

[ambyboo]

thanks for your help. I am not very good at word problems. I worked it last night finally and we went over it in class today.