You have a nickel and a half dollar. Neither one alone can make change for any other denomination.
one fifty-cent piece one quarter one dime one nickel
A penny is 1 cent, a nickel is 5 cent, a dime is 10 cent, a quarter is 25 cents, and a half-dollar is fifty cents.Any combination of these coins that add up to fifty is the equivalent of fifty cents.Examples include:50 pennies10 nickels5 dimes2 quarters25 pennies and 1 quarter1 half dollar8 nickels and a dimetwo dimes one nickel and a quarter
A fifty cent piece and a nickel equals 55 cents. If it's a riddle stating, "I have two coins that equals 55 cents, and one is not a nickel", the answer is still a fifty cent coin and a nickel. One is not a nickel, but the other one is.
1 quarter, 2 dimes, 1 nickel 1 quarter, 1 dime, 3 nickels
A fifty cent peice and a nickel. The question simple asked if ONE was not a nickel, not if either wasn't a nickel.
You have two whole dollars. Count up your change. Two quarters are fifty cents. A nickel is five cents. Pennies are one cent. You have $2.58.
Hmmmm. This is a trick question, huh. The two US coins that total fifty-five cents are a fifty-cent piece and a five-cent piece. The fifty-cent piece is the one that is not a nickel.
Could the original question be "You have two coins that equal fifty-five cents and one is not a nickel"? If so, the answer would be "one is a half-dollar (not a nickel) and the other one is a nickel".
How to fifty cents make one dollar
You have a half dollar and a nickel. One of them, the half dollar, is not a nickel.
A fifty pence and a ten pence. the one that is not a fifty pence is the ten.
A fifty cent piece and a nickel.