Problema Solution

One Saturday Omar collected from his newspaper customers twice as many dollar bills as fives and one fewer ten than fives. If Omar collected $58, how many tens,fives,and ones did he get

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we will assume that Omar collected tens,fives,and ones only


let


x = the number of ones


y = the number of fives


z = the number of tens


One Saturday Omar collected from his newspaper customers twice as many dollar bills as fives


x = 2y


and one fewer ten than fives


z = y - 1


Omar collected $58


x + 5y +10z = 58


plug x = 2y and z = y - 1 into x + 5y +10z = 58


we have


2y + 5y + 10(y - 1) = 58


by solving we find


y = 4


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x = 2*4


x = 8


z = 4 - 1


z = 3


Omar collected 8 ones, 4 fives and 3 tens.