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Santiago collects 435 cents in nickels. How many nickels does he collect? (I think I'm dumb for being in fourth grade, and not knowing this.)

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87 nickels because 435/5=87
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Let n=number of nickels. And since each nickel is worth 5 cents:

5n=435 divide both sides by 5

n=87

So Santiago collected 87 nickels.
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