How many combinations are there to make a dollar?
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How many combinations are there to make a dollar?
Larry King said in his USA Today column that there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar….Answer.
| Unit of Currency | Number of Ways to Make Change |
|---|---|
| 10¢ | 3 |
| 25¢ | 12 |
| 50¢ | 49 |
| $1 | 292 |
How many sums of money can we make?
There are 29 different sums of money that can be formed using some combination of the seven coins. Enumerating them is a tedious process.
How many ways can you make a dollar using nickels dimes and quarters?
242 ways
With the four coins (quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies), there are 242 ways to make change for a dollar.
How many ways are there of making $1.00 using quarters dimes and nickels?
This is a counting problem, not arithmetic. You will find the coefficient of x 100 \displaystyle x^{100} x100 is 242. Using quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies there are 242 ways to make change for a dollar.
How many combinations are there for heads and tails?
There are 1,024 possible sequences of heads and tails in 10 tosses of a coin; 252 of them contain exactly 5 heads.
How many different sums of money can be formed from a penny a nickel a dime and a quarter if exactly 2 coins are used?
By looking at the 5 coin values, one can easily see that it is not possible to obtain two sums with the same result. So the answer is 26.
How do you make a dollar with 100 cent coins?
We can make a dollar by using any combination of US coins that add up to 100¢. One way to make a dollar is to use 100 cent coins. Another way that we can make a dollar is with ten 10¢ coins (ten dimes).
How many one cent coins make a quarter dollar?
For example, a quarter dollar can be made from two dimes plus one nickel. Each dime is worth 10¢ and the nickel is worth 5¢. 10 + 10 + 5 = 25 and so two dimes plus a nickel add up to make 25¢. Starting with 25 one cent coins, we can see that ten one cent coins can be replaced with a dime and five one cent coins can be replaced with a nickel.
How many Nickels make a dollar?
Each dime is worth 10 cents so ten dimes make one dollar because 10 x 10 = 100 cents. Each nickel is worth 5 cents so twenty nickels make one dollar because 20 x 5 = 100 cents. Each quarter is worth 25 cents. 4 x 25 = 100 cents and so four quarters make one dollar.
How do you make money with 20 nickel coins?
Another way to make a dollar is to use twenty nickel coins, which are each worth 5¢. This is because 20 x 5 = 100. Another way to make a dollar is with four quarter dollar coins. Each quarter is worth 25¢.