From the question, we are informed that Billy has 2.4 m of ribbon for crafts and that he wants to share it evenly with 12 friends.
The number of centimeters of ribbon that each of the 7 friends would get will be gotten by dividing 2.4m by 12. We can solve this by first converting 2.4meters to centimeters. This will be:
<span>Let the number of nickles be x
Let the number of pennies be y
Value Value
Type Number of of
of of EACH ALL
coin coins coin coins
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nickles x $0.05 $0.05x
pennies y $0.01 $0.01y
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TOTALS 56 ----- $1.52
The first equation comes from the second column.</span>