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Box A contains only 20-cent coins and Box B contains only 50-cent coins. The number of coins in Box A is twice the number of coins in Box B. The amount of money in Box B is $1.60 more than the amount of money in Box A. How many 20-cent coins are there in Box A?​

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Answer: There should be 16, 20 cent coins

Explanation:

First we have to do 1.60 x 2 which equals 3.2

Then we divided by 0.20 because the equals the 20 cent coins

We get 16

We can check our work by 0.20 x 16 and that gives us 3.2

I hope this helps!

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