JERRY has 13 ten-dollar bills, 11 five-dollar bills, and 17 one-dollar bills.
JERRY has 13 ten-dollar bills, 11 five-dollar bills, and 17 one-dollar bills. If JERRY needs to pay exactly $128, what is the least number of bills he will need to use?
Answer/Solution
16
Steps/Work
128 is the total sum of money.
as we have 13 10 dollar bills so the closest we can get to 128 using the 10 dollar bills is by using 12 * 10 dollar bils
128-120 = 8
so now we need to get 8 from either 5 dollar bills or 1 dollar bills
8 - 5 (use only 1 5 dollar bill) = 3
so we can get 3 from using 3 $1 bills.
Hence 16 ( 12+1+3 )
ANSWER IS A
as we have 13 10 dollar bills so the closest we can get to 128 using the 10 dollar bills is by using 12 * 10 dollar bils
128-120 = 8
so now we need to get 8 from either 5 dollar bills or 1 dollar bills
8 - 5 (use only 1 5 dollar bill) = 3
so we can get 3 from using 3 $1 bills.
Hence 16 ( 12+1+3 )
ANSWER IS A