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Pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters 2019-05-09
From william:
Ann has 177 coins (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters)
Her total value is $19.90
She has the same number of nickels as dimes.
She has the same number of quarters as dimes.

How many of each does she have?

Answered by Penny Nom.
Nickels, dimes, and quarters 2018-04-20
From Patti:
A copy machine accepts nickels, dimes, and quarters. After 1 hour, there are 30 coins total, and their value is $5.10. How many nickels, quarters, and dimes are in the machine? (Hint: There are exactly five different solutions.)
Answered by Penny Nom.
Quarters 2014-07-04
From kamal:
how many quarters in the sum of 8 and 12 ?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Matt has 40 coins 2009-11-18
From Amy:
Matt has 40 coins(nickels, dimes, and quarters). The total amount is $4.05. He has 7 more nickels than dimes. How many quarters does he have?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Helen has twice as many dimes as nickles. 2009-09-08
From Dan:
Helen has twice as many dimes as nickles. She has 5 more quarters than nickles. She has $4.75. How many nickles does she have? I know she has 14 dimes, 7 nickles and 12 quarters. How do you put this into an algebra equation?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Nickels, dimes and quarters 2009-09-02
From danielle:
In changing a $5 bill, Sarah received nine more dimes than nickles and seven fewer quarters than dimes. How many coins of each type did she receive?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Nickels, dimes and quarters 2009-05-25
From Amy:
Coming from South Africa I find working with nickels, dimes and quarters confusing. How many dimes are in a nickel and how many quarters are in a dime?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Nickels, dimes and quarters 2008-10-27
From val:
I would like help working out a math word problem. A collection of 30 coins worth $5.50 consists of nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are twice as many dimes as nickels. How many quarters. Could you teach me how to find this formula?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Nickels, dimes and quarters 2007-03-18
From Alexandra:
Ellen has two more nickels than dimes and three more quarters than nickels. She has $3.35 in all. How many coins of each type does she have?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Nickels, dimes and quarters 2007-02-05
From Avinash:
Mary has 48 coins made up of nickels, dimes and quarters with a total value of $5.10. She has 4 more dimes than nickels and quarters combined. How many coins of each kind does she have? Use matrix to solve the system
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Word problem 2006-10-22
From Sabrina:
Thomas bought a badminton racquet and paid for it in quarters. If Thomas had used nickels and dimes, he would have needed 20 more dimes than quarters and one more than twice as many nickels as quarters. How much much did the badminton racquet cost?
Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
Nickles, dimes, quarters and fifty cent pieces 2002-01-08
From A parent:
The total for all coins counted is $4,564.50 The last coin added to the pile is a 50 cent piece There are 8 times as many 50 cent pieces as there are quarters There are 6 times as many dimes as nickles How many of each are there?
Answered by Penny Nom.
Rolling Circles 1999-09-12
From Craig Ellis:
We have a circle of radius 3. inside the circle and tangent to the circle of radius 3 at one point is a circleof radius 1. The question is if we could roll the smaller circle around the inside of the larger circle how many revolutions would it take to get around to where we started.
Answered by Chris Fisher and Walter Whiteley.
 
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