Question

4. A jar is filled with pennies and nickels in the

ratio of 5 to 3. There are 80 coins in the jar. How
much money is in the jar?

Answer 1

Explanation:

A ratio of pennies to nickels of 5 to 3 means that we can write the number of pennies and nickels in the form

number of pennies = 5x and number of nickels = 3x