Question

You have 23 coins in your pocket which are worth a total of 71 rupees. you have only one rupees coin and five rupees coins in your pocket. find the number of coins in your pocket. what will be the linear equation

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Answer 1

Let one rupee coins be x and five rupee coins be y.

Then 1.x+5.y=71

and x+y=23

these two are the equations.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the no. of one rupees coin be x and the no. of ₹5 be y

so,x+5y=71

andx+y=23

By elimination method we got

x+5y=71

x+ y=23

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4y=48

y=12

find x yourself