Tanya has ten bills in her wallet. She has a total of $40. If she has one more $5 bill than $10 bills, and two more $1 bills than $5 bills, how many of each does she have? (There are two ways of working this problem. See if you can do it both ways.) EXPLAIN IT.

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anonymous · Answer

hmm first im gonna ask you...what are the bills in her wallet?

anonymous · Answer

I like to try to make equations when solving these problem. 40=10n+5(n+1)+1(n+3) Solve for n. Then figure out how much n is where. n= 2 So you plug n into the parenthesis and you find there are 2 10 dollar bills 3 5 dollar bills and 5 1 dollar bills. I hope I helped.

anonymous · Answer

You're way off luis rivera if there was 12 ten dollar bills you'd have 120 dollars. WOW just wow lol