Open Middle®
Directions: You have the same number of pennies, nickels, and dimes in your pocket. You have $1.44. You don’t have any other coins or bills. How many of each coin do you have?
Hint
Modifications: Provide coin manipulatives to make the problem more concrete.
Questions: Have you drawn the coin possibilities? Could you set up an equation that might be useful?
Answer
9 of each coin
Source: Andrew Gael
I have 9 of each coin
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you would do 9 of each coin
There would be nine of each coin.
Nickles: 9 x 5 = 45
Dimes: 9 x 10 = 90
Pennies: 9 x 1 = 9
45+90+9= 144
9 coins each
9.dimes=90
2.nickels=10
44.pennies=44
=1.44
Let x be the number of pennies. Then we also have x nickels and x dimes.
1x + 5x + 10x = 144
=> 16x = 144
=> x = 144/16 = 9
all of them are 9