Word Problem

Question

The second bowl also contained 2.70$ in pennies and nickels. If there were 54 more pennies than nickels in this bowl, how many were pennies and how many were nickles

Answer 1

Hey' let's solve this shall we? Let x= pennies and y= nickels. We must create two equations to obtain the number of each coin.The first equation is

0.01x+0.05y= 2.70 and the other equation is

x=y+54

Use the substitution method to solve for x and y!

I hope this helped!