Back then, copper (pennies are made of copper), was a lot less rare than silver (what dimes at least used to be made of) was. It was cheaper to make the dime small than making a penny small.
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1,000,000,000 pennies / 10 = 100,000,000 dimes. This is true because 10 pennies equal one dime.
10 dimes, or 100 pennies, or 1 dime and 90 pennies, or 2 dimes and 80 pennies, or 3 dimes and 70 pennies, and so on.
Since each dime = 10 pennies, the number of dimes with the same value as a group of pennies is 1/10th the number of pennies.1/10th billion = 100,000 dimes have the same face value as 1 billion pennies
If you are referring to 1 billion pennies the answer is 100,000,000 dimes. If you mean $1,000,000,000 then it is 10,000,000,000 dimes.
The ratio of pennies to dimes is 10 to 1.