Question

Tessa has a coin jar full of dimes and pennies. When she took the coin jar to the bank, she was told that it contained exactly $27.34. Give three different combinations of the number of dimes and pennies that could have been in the coin jar.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Note: In solving our problems below, we will use the value of the coins in dollars which are listed under the third column in the table above. As you can see, the penny has a value of 0.01, the nickel has a value of 0.05, the dime has a value of 0.10, and the quarter has a value of 0.25