Problema Solution

Calvin has a wall safe that contains 219950.00. If it has 9 times as many 200-peso bills as 100-peso bills, and 5 times as many 50-peso bills as 200-peso bills, how many 200-peso bills does the wall safe have?

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Let 'x' represent the number of 200-peso bills, then 'x/9' represents the number of 100-peso bills and 5x represents the number of 50-peso bills. 

219950=200x+100(x/9)+50(5x)

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x=477

So 477 200-peso bills were contained in the wall safe.