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?
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16 Hundreds; 76 Tens; 8 Fives
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