if I have 1 dime, two nickels and 4 pennies and I have to use tally lines to show the amount of coins, do I use 7 tally lines or break each coin down into their own tally lines?

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To represent the amount of coins using tally lines, you generally draw a single tally line for every five units. In this case, you have 1 dime, which is worth 10 cents, two nickels, which are worth 10 cents together, and 4 pennies, which are worth 4 cents.

Since each tally line represents 5 cents, you would need to divide each coin into units of 5 cents to determine the number of tally lines needed.

For the dime (10 cents), you would draw two tally lines. This is because each tally line represents 5 cents, and you have 10 cents, which is equal to two units of 5 cents.

For the two nickels (10 cents together), you would draw two tally lines as well, since they are also equal to 10 cents or two units of 5 cents.

For the four pennies (4 cents), you would only draw a single tally line because it is less than 5 cents.

Therefore, you would have a total of 5 tally lines in this case: 2 for the dime, 2 for the nickels, and 1 for the pennies.