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Posted by chandice on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:14pm.

A woman has $1.70 in dimes and nickels. She has 5 more dimes than nickels. How many nickels does she have?

• math - Anonymous, Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 9:16pm

  13 dimes 8 nickels

  
  

• math - PsyDAG, Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 11:38am

  let .05x = number of nickels and .10x = number of dimes 5(.10x) + .05x = 1.70 multiply both sides by 100 50x + 5x = 170 55x = 170

  
  

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