John has no more than 10 coins. They comprise of both nickels and pennies. There are at least five times as many pennies as the number of nickels. Construct a system of inequalities that describes this situation.

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reemii · Answer

n : number of nickels
p :  number of pennies

"no more than 10 coins" : n + p <= 10.

how would you translate "at least five times as many pennies as the number of nickels"?

reemii · Answer

"at least five times as many pennies as the number of nickels"

this means that there are more pennies than 5 times the number of nickels.
The answer is of the form :  ... >= 5 ...