how money is this: 8 dollars, 16 pennies, 10 nickels, 7 dimes, & 9 quartes

Question

I need to know how much money this is. Can you please tell me?

 

Answer 1

Lets break it down. First determine how much each type of currency is in pennies:

  dollars = 100 pennies

  pennies = 1 penny

  nickels = 5 pennies

  dimes = 10 pennies

  quarter = 25 pennies

 

you can now use this information to write an equation to find out your total in pennies:

8(100) + 16(1) + 10(5) + 7(10) + 9(25) = total

total = 1161

 

now we can convert back to dollars. since each dollar = 100 pennies you will divide by 100 and the remainder will be your change.

 

$11.61