Mrs Munoz algebra class was collecting money for a party. The class decided that each student should give the same amount of money. They collected a total of $9.61. If everyone used 5 coins, how many nickels were collected?

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48 To solve this problem, we need to find out how many nickels were collected. The information given is that the total amount collected was $9.61 and each student contributed the same amount of money. Additionally, it is mentioned that each student used 5 coins.

Let's assume that each student contributed x amount of money. Since each student used 5 coins, we can infer that the coins used were all nickels (worth 5 cents each).

So, each student contributed 5 * 5 = 25 cents, which is equivalent to 0.25 dollars.

To find the number of nickels collected, we can divide the total amount collected by the amount contributed by each student.

Number of nickels = Total amount collected / Amount contributed by each student

Number of nickels = $9.61 / $0.25

Using division, we find that the number of nickels collected is 38.44.

However, since the number of nickels must be a whole number, we need to round down to the nearest whole number. Therefore, the number of nickels collected is 38.

To recap, there were 38 nickels collected for the party in Mrs. Munoz's algebra class.