Rory claims: \"I have $20 quarters, half dollars, andone-dollar bills. I have tw

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Rory claims: "I have $20 quarters, half dollars, andone-dollar bills. I have twice as many quarters as half dollars,and half as many one-dollar bills as half dollars." Give aconvincing argument to explain why he must be wrong. Please solve, preferably if an equation can be used. Thankyou! :) Rory claims: "I have $20 quarters, half dollars, andone-dollar bills. I have twice as many quarters as half dollars,and half as many one-dollar bills as half dollars." Give aconvincing argument to explain why he must be wrong. Please solve, preferably if an equation can be used. Thankyou! :)

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Quarters (q), half- dollars(h) ( 2 quarters), one dollarbills(d) twice as many quarters as half dollars 2h = q or h= 0.5 q half as many one-dollar bills as half dollars." 2d= h or 2d = 0.5q or q = 4d so we have q=2h and q = 4d adding these up we have 2q=2h+4d or q= h+2d This is what i got.

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