A quarter is worth...well...a quarter dollar. That's 25 cents.
A penny is worth 1 cent.
Start not with the mathmatical formula, but with a statement.
"If I take some number of quarters and add some number of pennies, I will have 60 dollars."
"If I take some number of quarters..."
Some number of quarters. Quarters starts with a "q" so let's call that number "q." A quarter is 25 cents. So
.25 q
"And add"
That's addition. +
.25q +
"Some number of pennies."
Pennies starts with a p, so let's call "some number" "p." A penny is worth one cent, so
.01p
Now we have
.25q + .01p
"I will have"
Adding them together gives you a new number. That means is equals something.
=
.25q + .01p =
"60 dollars."
.25q + .01p = 60
Now, you will not be able so solve this yet. You would have to know how many coins there are to do that.
you have $60, consisting of quarters and pennies. write an inequality that shows the different number of coins in piggy bank
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Sorry for the double post. My blackberry went haywire. :-D