Question

Part of the proceeds from a garage sale was ​$440 worth of ​$10 and ​$20 bills. If there were 2 more ​$10 bills than ​$20 ​bills, find the number of each denomination.

Answer 1

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Let's set this up a system of equations where x represents the number of 10 dollar bills and y represents the number of 20 dollar bills.

10x+20y=440

x=y+2

We see that x has a value of y+2, so we can replace the x in the first equation with y+2 so we can solve for y.

10(y+2)+20y=440

We use distributive property to undo the parentheses.

10y+20+20y=440

We combine like terms.

30y+20=440

We subtract 20 from both sides.

30y=420

y=14

Since there are 2 more $10 bills, there would be 16 of those.

Therefore, there are 16 $10 bills and 14 $20 bills.

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