Question

These are the first sentences in the short story, "The Gift of the Magi," by O. Henry: "One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies." What are possible numbers of coins to make $1.87? Use the equation that represents the value of the coins to complete the table. q quarters d dimes n nickels p pennies 4 6 5 0 18 0 2 5 22 10 37 5 0 47

Answer 1

3 is the last row answer, the writing box would not let me right it below*

Answer:

Explanation:

Okay, you need to begin with knowing the values of each type of money, right? Quarters are 25 each, dimes are 10 each, nickels are 5 each, and pennies are 1 each.

Now, you are looking for values of coins to equal to the value of $1.87. You can view this as 187. For each row, you will add the value of coins together.

First row: quarters 4, dimes 6, 5 nickels, and an unknown value of pennies. It will look like this:

25+25+25+25 for the quarters and so on for each type of coin.

The rows to fill in should go(if im correct)

2

7

9

2 and 0

Answer 2

Each row is read from left to right not down, that's what messed me up. All it wants you to do is fill in the blanks to make each row equal 187. It's a tricky table. q+d+n+p = 187. q=25, d=10, n=5, p=1. So for the first row, it's 4q + 6d + 5n + 2p = 187.