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Rory claims: " I have $20 in quarters, half dollars, and one-dollar bills. I have twice as many quarters as half dollars, and half as many one-dollar bills as half dollars." Give a convincing argument to explain why he must be wrong.

2006-11-13 11:32:41 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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20= 4x*.25 + 2x*.5 +x*1
20 dollars = quarters+half dollars+dollars
20= 1x+1x+1x
20=3x
indivisible logically/ does not equal a whole number

began with logic that half dollars was 2x intead of x for sake of doubling

2006-11-13 11:41:35 · answer #1 · answered by tom4bucs 7 · 0 0

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