A large bag of coins contains pennies, dimes and quarters. There are twice as many dimes as pennies and three times as many quarters as dimes. An amount of money which could be in the bag is
Pick one
Solution
Let there be pennies. Therefore, there are dimes and quarters. Since pennies are 0.01$, dimes are 0.10, the total amount of money is . Therefore, any amount of money must be a multiple of 1.71$. Since the answer choices are all whole dollar amounts, we multiply by $100$ to get a whole dollar number: 171, which is answer choice .
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