Omar has a change jar that contains only quarters and half dollars. He has 68 coins which add up to a total of $27.75 how many of each type of coins does he have?

Question

Enter an equation using the information as it is given that can be solved to find the solution to this problem. Use X as your variable to represent the number quarters. Note: your equation should not include any numbers that do not appear in the original problem.

Answer 1

q represents the number of quarters

68 - q represents the number half-dollars

0.25q + 0.50(68 - q) = 27.75

Can you solve for q and answer?