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.