It's a because 5 divided by 9 equals .555555555555556. The 6 is just from rounding the number. Otherwise the five would go on forever. The bar means go on forever. So it .5 with a bat over the 5
That’s 5 inch g , so like u see the 24 inch rug right then u do + 4 inch to get 5 inch fam
Number of nickels plus number of dimes equals total number of coins
so
n + d = 40
then they tell us that "there are seven times as many dimes as there are nickels"
this translates to
d = 7n
we then plug that into our first equation
and get
n + 7n = 40
then we solve for n
add like terms
8n = 40
then divide both sides by 8
n = 40/8 = 5
therefore Jimmy has 5 nickels