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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.
	Macy's coin collection		2019-01-30
		From Sariah: Macy's coin collection has 2 pennies for every nickel. If she has 60 coins that are pennies or nickels, how many nickels does she have? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Five coins		2017-11-10
		From Allan: I have five coins..a penny,a nickle,a dime,a quarter and a loonie.....how many different amounts of money could i pay using ny combination of this coins Answered by Penny Nom.
	Dimes and pennies		2016-04-26
		From Renae: Charity has 42 more pennies than dimes. Hope has 7 times as many pennies than dimes. Hope and Charity have the same number of dimes. Together they have $5.46. How many dimes and pennies do each have? Answered by Penny Nom.
	$9.50 in coins		2014-01-15
		From dana: you have $9.50 in coins. it has twice as many nickels as quarters and three times as many dimes as nickels. how many of each coin do you have? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Drawing three coins from 10 coins		2011-09-29
		From Michelle: Three coins are chosen at random from a purse containing 6 dimes & 4 quarters. What is the probability that the selection will contain at least one quarter? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Three tangent circles		2011-08-19
		From hanniel: two coin are tangent to a third coin internally and are tangent to each other externally. The distance between their centers are 14 mm, 17mm, and 5mm. find their radii Answered by Penny Nom.
	Four coins		2011-03-11
		From Nestor: exact amount: philip has a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and a penny. for how many different prices could he give the exact amount? Answered by Penny Nom.
	12 coins		2010-07-07
		From Eden: We have 12 coins same in size and shape and also weight. But among these, one coin which has same size and shape, but not in weight and we can't know that this coin was lighter or heavier. We must decide which coin was lighter or heavier among these 12 coins in 4 times of weighting with scale. Answered by Stephen La Rocque and Tyler Wood.
	Sarim has $1 in coins.		2009-10-27
		From Elizabeth: Here is the question asked: Sarim has $1 in coins. One-fifth of the coins are dimes, two-fifteenths are nickels, and two-thirds are pennies. Tell how many of each coin he has. I am not sure how to start this problem. Answered by Penny Nom.
	$6.25 in nickels quaters and dimes		2009-10-10
		From miriam: a piggy bank contains $ 6.25 in nickles quaters and dimes. there are 65 coins all together and there are four times as many nickles as quaters find the number of coins of each kind Answered by Penny Nom.
	Tossing a penny 26 times		2009-08-04
		From Basma: Jack is going ot toss a penny 26 times. How many times should it land on heads? Answered by Robert Dawson.
	A bag of coins		2009-01-09
		From marina: I have a bag of gold coins. I give 1/8 to mother then gave 1/2 of what was left to my brother i give 2/7 of what was left to father. If i have 25 coins left. how many do i have originally. Answered by Robert Dawson and Penny Nom.
	50 coins with a value of $1.00		2009-01-08
		From Ana: you have 50 coins which have a total value of 1.00. What are the coins and how many of each do you have? Answered by Robert Dawson.
	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.
	Abby has 45 coins		2008-08-28
		From Sonia: Use an algebraic approach to solve the problem. Abby has 45 coins, consisting only of dimes and quarters, worth $6.6. How many dimes and how many quarters does she have? Answered by Penny Nom and Victoria West.
	Lining up coins visually using geometry and trigonometry		2007-12-31
		From Jessica: a) In what order would you arrange a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, and a half-dollar so that they all have the same apparent size? The diameters of the coins, in thousandths of inches, are as follows: penny, 750; nickel, 835; dime, 705; quarter, 955; half-dollar, 1205. b) How should the coins be placed, if the distance between the dime and the half-dollar is 100 units? How far from thw dime should your eye be to see that all the coins have the same apparent size? c) What angle do the coins subtend when they have the same apparent size? Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	Nickels, dimes and pennies		2007-10-14
		From tom: you have $1.00 and 1/5 of it is dimes, 2/15 is nickels, and 2/3 is pennies. How many coins of each are there. how do i set it up to solve this problem. thanks, tom Answered by Penny Nom.
	Coin jar		2007-10-07
		From a student: Sally empties his jar of coins. It contains $3.75 in nickels, dimes, and quarters. The number of dimes is twice the number of nickels and the number of quarters is three less than the number of nickels. Determine how many nickels, dimes, and quarters were in the in the jar. Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	Weightng coins		2007-02-18
		From Gary: You are considering buying 27 silver coins that look alike, but you have been told that one of the coins is a lightweight counterfeit. Find the least number of weighings on a balance scale that you can use to be certain you have found the counterfeit coin. 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 $5.10. She has 4 more dimes than nickels and quarters combined. How many coins of each kind does she have? Use matrix to solve the system Answered by Stephen La Rocque.
	Place value, coins and money		2006-12-12
		From Emily: I was wondering what the best way would be to teach place value using coins and money. I have used base ten blocks already and am looking for a way to integrate money, perhaps on a place value chart and perhaps using decimals. Answered by Diane Hanson.
	A jar contains 36.25$		2006-06-12
		From Brunia: A jar contains 36.25$ in pieces of 0.10 and of 0.25$. If it there has 250 change pieces in all, how much there he has pieces of 0.25$ in the jar. Answered by Penny Nom.
	A triangle of 50p pieces		2006-02-22
		From Stuart: Ok, so i am collecting 50p pieces and arranging them on my desk in the shape of a triangle. eg 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p 50p I want to work out how much money I'm saving just by knowing how many rows of coins there are. If i can work out how many coins there are just by knowing how many rows I have I can just divide by 2 to find out the amount in dollars. Answered by Penny Nom.
	112!		2004-05-28
		From Beatriz: 1) A bus driver collects identical sets of 5 coins from each passenger. If the totoal colledted was $21.83, how many pennies did the driver get?? 2) How many terminal zero in the base 10 expression of 112! (factional) N! means N(N-1)(N-2) .....(2) (1). Answered by Penny Nom.
	A counterfeit coin		2004-01-23
		From Kim: You are considering buying 45 silver coins that look alike, but you have been told that one of the coins is a lightweight counterfeit. Find the least number of weighings on a balance scale that you can use to be certain you have found the counterfeit coin? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Arithmitic sequence		2003-02-01
		From A student: I am having problems solving this arithmetic sequence... 1, 5, 10, ___, 50, 1.00, ___, 10.00, ... I believe the answers to be 25 and 5.00 but I can't figure why. Answered by Claude Tardif.
	A penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, and a loonie		2003-01-21
		From Blaine: I have 5 coins: a penny, a nickel, a dime, a quarter, and a loonie. How many different amounts of money could I pay using any combination of these coins? Answered by Penny Nom.
	A coin is tossed 11 times		2002-10-31
		From A student: There are 2 people that are playing a game in which a coin is tossed 11 times. The first player gets a point for a toss of heads. The 2nd player gets a point for a toss of tails. whoever gets 6 points wins. Suppose that so far the first player has 2 points and the second player has 4 points. What is the probability that the first player wins the game? Answered by Andrei Volodin and Penny Nom.
	Piles of coins		2001-12-05
		From A student: Sharon has less than 20 coins. When she puts them in piles of 5, she has 1 left over. When she put them in piles of 3, she also has 1 left over. How many coins does Sharon have? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Lots of coins		2001-04-26
		From A student: I purchase 2 million coins at 9.75 I purchase 1 milion coins at 8 what is the formula to calculate my average cost? Answered by Penny Nom.
	Coins and monomials		2001-03-04
		From A student: Tokola has 5 coins with a total value of $1.05. He canot make change for a dollar, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cent, or 50 cents. What 5 coins does he have? and Determine whether 6c-d is a monmial. Explain why or why not. 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.
	48 cents with 6 coins		1999-05-05
		From Belinda: i'm in 5th grade. my teacher asked this question: what are two ways you can make 48 cents out of 6 coins? i could only figure out one way. please help. Answered by Chris Fisher.
	A balance problem		1996-11-18
		From Jack N. Bussell: There are 12 coins which look exactly the same, however one of them is heavier or lighter than the rest. Using a pointer balance scale, can you identify the odd coin and whether it is heavy or light in 3 weighings? Answered by Harley Weston.
	A coin problem		1996-04-16
		From Julie Hebert and Simon Hamel: How many weighings would you need to find out which pile is fraudulent? Answered by Penny Nom.

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