3 quarters & 2 nickels
To make 55 cents using 12 coins, you could use 3 quarters (25 cents each), 1 nickel (5 cents), and 8 pennies (1 cent each). This combination adds up to 75 cents from the quarters, 5 cents from the nickel, and 8 cents from the pennies, totaling 55 cents.
Well, honey, to make 48 cents with 6 coins, you can use 2 quarters (50 cents), 1 dime (10 cents), and 3 pennies (3 cents). That adds up to a grand total of 48 cents. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!
A US $1.00 (100 cents) can be broken down into:100 pennies (1-cent each)20 nickels (5-cents each)10 dimes (10-cents each)4 quarters (25-cents each)2 fifty-cent pieces ($0.50 cents each)Any combination of these can add up to $1.00.
To make 95 cents using 6 coins, you can use the following combination: three quarters (75 cents), one dime (10 cents), and two pennies (2 cents). This adds up to a total of 95 cents using exactly 6 coins.
69 cents....
The minimum number of quarters, pennies, and nickels needed to make up 123 cents is 4 quarters, 4 nickels, and 3 pennies.
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.
Two dimes, a nickel, and 10 pennies. A good question is how do you figure that out. I started out eliminating the coins that could not be included. If one coin was a quarter, the other 12 had to add up to 10 cents. That can't happen so there can't be any quarters in the answer. Then I knew that the number of pennies had to be 0, 5, or 10 since there is no way for the remaining dimes and nickels to to add up to 35 cents if there were another number of pennies. If you had 5 pennies, then 8 coins would have to add up to 30 cents. Even using all nickels would only use up 6 coins so there had to be more pennies. I then went to 10 pennies and that left 3 coins to get to 25 cents. That's where I came up with 2 dimes, 1 nickel, and 10 pennies.
99 pennies If you require all four coins then 62 coins can add up to 99 cents: 1 quarter, 1 dime, 1 nickel, and 59 pennies
A dime plus a nickel plus 5 pennies add up to 20 cents.
Desmond gave Brenda at least two quarters, which are each worth 25 cents, totaling at least 50 cents. The remaining 5 coins must add up to 42 cents. Since quarters are the highest denomination, the other coins must be lower in value, such as dimes (10 cents) and pennies (1 cent). Therefore, Desmond likely gave Brenda 2 quarters, 2 dimes, and 3 pennies.
3 quarters & 2 nickels
One quarter, three dimes, and five pennies add up to sixty cents. And also 3 dimes and 6 nickels.
You can figure this out by experimenting a bit. Obviously, to have that many coins, most of the coins must be pennies. Also, the number of pennies must be a multiple of 5, since all coins larger than pennies are multiples of 5. If you use 45 pennies and 8 nickels, you have the right amount of coins, but not enough money. The solution turns out to be 45 pennies, 4 nickels, and 4 dimes.
To make 55 cents using 12 coins, you could use 3 quarters (25 cents each), 1 nickel (5 cents), and 8 pennies (1 cent each). This combination adds up to 75 cents from the quarters, 5 cents from the nickel, and 8 cents from the pennies, totaling 55 cents.
Well, honey, to make 48 cents with 6 coins, you can use 2 quarters (50 cents), 1 dime (10 cents), and 3 pennies (3 cents). That adds up to a grand total of 48 cents. Easy peasy lemon squeezy!