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Alonzo has $3.00 in dimes and nickels. The number of dimes he has is twice the number of nickels

that he has. How many dimes does he have?

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Answer: 24 dimes and 12 nickels

Since a dime is equal to .10 and each nickel is worth .05, and there is double the amount of dimes then we can conclude that if we had 1 collection of all then we would have 2 dimes and a nickel, or .25. So now we divide 3.00 by 0.25 and get 12, now since there is 2 dimes in per 1 nickel we multiply this by 2 and get 24.
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Answer:

30 dimes

Explanation:

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