Carol has only 20p and 10p coins in her purse she has three times as many 20p coins and 10p coins if Carol has ?4.20 altogether,
2 answers:
Suppose that Carol has x 10p coins in her purse. Since she has three times as many 20p coins as 10p coins, then she has 3x 20p coins in her purse.
x coins of 10p value $0.10x and 3x coins of 20p value $0.60x.
In total this amount of money is $(0.10x+0.60x)=$0.70x that is exactly $4.20. Thus, you get the equation
0.70x=4.20.
Solve it:
Carol has 6 coins of 10p and 3·6=18 coins of 20p.
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Answer:
x = 16
Step-by-step explanation
Find the diagram attached. You can see from the diagram that both angles are vertically opposite angles and vertically opposite angles are equal.
Hence 2x+13 = 3x-3
Collect like terms
2x-3x = -3-13
-x = -16
Multiply both sides by -1
-1(-x) = -1(-16)
x = 16
Hence the value of x is 16
