a student has some $1 bills and $5 bills in his wallet. he has a total of 15 bills that are worth $47. How many of each type of Bill does he have. (using algebra, substitution to solve a problem)

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mcmadi

The student would have 8 $5 bills and 7 $1 bills because 58=40 and 71=7 and adding them together makes 47! Hope that helps!

Answer:  The student has 7 $1 bills and 8 $5 bills.

Step-by-step explanation:  Give that a student has some $1 bills and $5 bills in his wallet. He has a total of 15 bills that are worth $47.

We are to find the number of each type of bills that he has.

Let m and n represents the number of $1 bills and $5 bills respectively.

Then, according to the given information, we have

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and

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From equation (i), we get

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Thus, the student has 7 $1 bills and 8 $5 bills.