Question

A youth organization collected nickels and dimes for Charity Drive. By the end of the 1st day drive, the youth had collected $37. If there were two times as many dimes as nickels how many of each type when was collected

Answer 1

• 148 nickels
• 296 dimes

Explanation:

A group of 2 dimes and 1 nickel has a value of $0.25. In $37, there are 4·37 = 148 such groups.

148 nickels and 296 dimes were collected.