Question

Jocelyn has a jar of 54 coins consisting of dimes and quarters. If she has a total of $9.60, how many dimes does she have?

Answer 1

If you let d be the number of dimes, and q be the number of quarters, can you write an equation for having 54 coins in a mixture of dimes and quarters?

Answer 2

Then, remembering that $1.00 = 100 cents, and a dime is 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents, can you write an equation showing that the value of the coins totals 960 cents?

Answer 3

Then, remembering that $1.00 = 100 cents, and a dime is 10 cents and a quarter 25 cents, can you write an equation showing that the value of the coins totals 960 cents?

Answer 4

From there my response is draw it out.