Question

a wallet containing 40 has three times As many $1 notes as $5 notes. Find the number of each kind.

Answer 1

Containing 40 what..?

Answer 2

@Mayoosh

Answer 3

40 dollars of course...

Answer 4

A wallet....

Answer 5

No direct answers as they are against the code of conduct. @chrisk123

Answer 6

shoul i delete it

Answer 7

@Conqueror

Answer 8

Yes, you should.

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

And please avoid doing it in the future :)

Answer 11

ok

Answer 12

let the \(1 $\) notes be \(3x\)
so \(5 $\) notes would be \(x\)
\(\large \begin{align} \color{black}{3x+x=40\hspace{.33em}\\~\\}\end{align}\)
solve it and find the values of \(x\) and \(3x\)