Question

1. Darla's piggy bank is full, so she plans to empty out all of the coins, roll asmany as possible to deposit into her savings account, and put the remainingcoins back into the piggy bank. Rolls of pennies and dimes consist of 50 coinseach, while rolls of nickels and quarters consist of 40 coins each.(9 points: Part 1 - 2 points; Part II - 2.5 points; Part III - 2 points; Part IV - 2.5points)Part : After emptying out all of the coins, Darla counted 472 pennies, 319 nickels,436 dimes, and 271 quarters. How many rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes, andquarters will she have?

Answer 1

The given information are:

• Rolls of pennies = 50 coins

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• Rolls of dimes = 50 coins

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• Rolls of nickels = 40 coins

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• Rolls of quarters = 40 coins

The problem is to determine how many rolls of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters are in:

• 472 pennies

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• 319 nickels

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• 436 dimes

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• 271 quarters

What we do - is divide each of the number of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters she has by the corresponding number of coins that make a roll.

FOR PENNIES

`(472)/(50)=9.44\text{ rolls of pennies}`

FOR NICKELS