Gisele has $5.90 in quarters and nickels. If Gisele has 16 more nickels than quarters, how many quarters does she have?
+36916 q = quarters value = 25q
n = nickles = (q+ 16) value = 5 (q+16) values summed = 590
25q + 5(q+16) = 590 solve for q
+169 Ahh, I see how you're doing it. Yes, guest, you can also do it in cents or just multiply by a 100 if you want cleaner numbers to work with. Nice catch!
+169 Set:
\(n=\text{number of nickles}\\ q=\text{number of quarters}\)
Now, we can make a system of equations. We have:
\(\begin{align*} q+16&=n\\ 5.90&=0.05n+0.25q \end{align*}\)
I trust you can solve this yourself. If not, here it is even more simplified. Substituting \(n\) in, we have:
\(5.90=0.05(q+16)+0.25q\\ 5.90=0.05q+0.8+0.25q\\ 5.90-0.8=0.3q\)
Now finish on your own! :)
+1262 we can use algebra to form the equation 25x+5(x+16)=590 we distribute to get 25x+(5)(x)+(5)(16)=590 then it becomes 25x+5x+80=590 and we combine like terms to get (25x+5x)+(80)=590 then 30x+80=590 we then subtract 80 from both sides to get 30x+80−80=590−80 then 30x=510 finally we divide both sides by 30 to get 30x/30=510/30 then we have x=17 so we get that she has \(17\text{ Quarters}\)
and 33 nickels :)
To check we do 5*33+17*25 which simplifies into 165+425=590 so that means that our answer
