Question

A cup holder in a car contains 19 quarters, 39 dimes, some number of nickels, and 58 pennies. If all the coins in the cup holder equal $10.08, then how many nickels are in the cup holder?

Answer 1

17 nickels

Explanation:

To be able to find the answer, you can say that the sum of the value of each coin multiply for its quantity is equal to 10.08, which you can express as follows:

quarters= 0.25

dimes= 0.10

nickels= 0.05

pennies= 0.01

(0.25*19)+(0.10*39)+(0.05*x)+(0.01*58)=10.08, where

x= the quantity of nickels

Now, you can solve for x:

4.75+3.9+0.05x+0.58=10.08

0.05x=10.08-4.75-3.9-0.58

0.05x=0.85

x=0.85/0.05

x=17

According to this, the answer is that there are 17 nickels in the cup holder.