Question

Challenge A bag contains pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. There are 50 coins in all. Of the

coins, 10% are pennies and 38% are dimes. There are 2 more nickels than pennies. How much
money does the bag contain?

Answer 1

5 pennies

7 nickels

19 dimes

$2.3

Explanation:

first i like to find 1%

50/100=1%

50/100=0.5

then multiply to find %'s

0.5x10=pennies

0.5x10=5

0.5x38=dimes

0.5x38=19

since there are 2 more nickels than pennies there are 7 nickels since there are 5 pennies

then find each value and add

5x.01+7x.05+19x.10

0.05+0.35+1.9=$2.3