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In the Boutique Shop, you
must determine the change a customer receives from
$5.00 for each purchase and decide what coins you use
to make the change. You have quarters, dimes,
nickels, and pennies. Limit: 9 of any one coin.
- List all the different
ways you can make change in this problem. Use a
spreadsheet template or create your own. (1)
- (There are 27 ways. Here is the
list.)
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- What is the least number
of coins you need to find this change? (6)
- Whats the most number of coins you can use to
find this change if you have a limit of 9 of any
particular coin? (19)
- Why can you use only 8 pennies or 3 pennies?
(Why not 9, 7, 6, 5, 4, 2, 1, or 0?) Try some of the numbers in
parenthesis and see what happens. For example, if
you have 9 pennies, then you have to make $.69
with the remaining coins. How do you make $.69
with only quarters, dimes and nickels? The amount
that you make with the combinations of these three
coins has to be a multiple of 5. So if you
subtract the number of pennies from your required
change, then the result has to be a multiple of 5.
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