Math Corner: Currency Withdrawal

Question: Student Sally Current wishes to withdraw $2,400 from a bank teller. When asked in which denomination she wants her bills, Sally tells the teller, “I need exactly 100 bills which consists only of $5, $10 and $100 bills and the number of $100 bills must exceed the number of $5 bills.”

How many of each bill must he give her to satisfy her requirements?

16 Hundreds; 76 Tens; 8 Fives
Math Corner” is a contest that appears in each issue of The Current and is a collaboration between NSU’s Department of Mathematics | NSU Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU and NSU’s Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts | Halmos College of Arts and Sciences | NSU. Contest submissions to the Math Corner question in the Current’s latest issue can be sent to jgershma@nova.edu up until the date the next issue is published. Prizes are awarded at the end of the academic year.

About the Author(s)

Loading...

Be the first to comment on "Math Corner: Currency Withdrawal"

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published.


*