While learning about money, children in a kindergarten class collected coins to practice using in their classroom store. The children collected one dollar and seventy cents in nickels. How many nickels did the children collect?

ten

seventeen

thirty-four

eighty-five

Question

While learning about money, children in a kindergarten class collected coins to practice using in their classroom store. The children collected one dollar and seventy cents in nickels. How many nickels did the children collect?

ten

seventeen

thirty-four

eighty-five

anonymous · Answer

1 nickel = 5 cents
5cents * 20 = 1 dollar
5cents * 14 = 70cents
20+14=34 nickels