an errand boy went to the bank to deposit some bills for his employer. Some if the bills were one-dollar bills and the rest were five-dollar bills. The total value of the bills was 86$ and the number of bills was 38. Find the number of each kind of bill.

system of equations.

Please help if you can thanks!

Question

an errand boy went to the bank to deposit some bills for his employer. Some if the bills were one-dollar bills and the rest were five-dollar bills. The total value of the bills was 86$ and the number of bills was 38. Find the number of each kind of bill.

system of equations.

Please help if you can thanks!

anonymous · Answer

Ok so let the number of 1 dollar bills be X and 5 dollar bills be Y.

Then sum of bills = 38 i.e. X + Y = 38.

And VALUE of bills = 86.

i.e. 5Y dollars + X dollars = 86.

Hence X+5Y = 86 and X + Y = 38. solve accordingly. :)