how do you get answer for this question
Rhonda has 1.35 in nickels and dimes in her pocket.
if she has six more dimes than nickels,which
equation can be used to determine x, the number
of nickels she have?

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how do you get answer for this question
Rhonda has 1.35 in nickels and dimes in her pocket.
if she has six more dimes than nickels,which 
equation can be used to determine x, the number
of nickels she have?

anonymous · Answer

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Now with your problem,

let x be the number of nickels
y be the number of dimes

From this statement: "Rhonda has 1.35 in nickels and dimes in her pocket."
we know that we will have $\sf x + y = 1.35$ as our first equation.

"he has six more dimes than nickels"
which means we will have $\sf y = x + 6$ as our second equation

so that's what we can do for now since your question seems incomplete. If you could kindly take a screenshot of your questin or type the complete qeusion, we can figure it out the anwer together (:

anonymous · Answer

*question , sorry for the typo ;p

anonymous · Answer

The next thing we can do is to combine those two equations together to solve for x by either substitution method or elimination method.

anonymous · Answer

okay, so let's use substitution method.
@touchone I need your participation in evaluating this ok?

so we have:
$\sf x + \color{red}{y} = 1.35$ -> eqn 1
$\sf \color{red}{y = x + 6}$ -> eqn 2

replace $\sf \color{red}{y}$ from eqn 1, using eqn
can you do that for me?

anonymous · Answer

**eqn 1 should be 0.5x + 0.10 y =1.35 
not x + y = 1.35

sorry my bad

anonymous · Answer

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