This is similar to Problem 12 from your Section 2.3 (part 2) worksheet.

At the end of the day, Helen throws all the change from her purse into a box. The box contains only pennies, nickels, and dimes. At the end of one week she found that the total value of the coins was $. If the number of dimes was more than the number of nickels and the number of pennies was more than the number of nickels, how many nickels were in the box?

There were nickels in the box.

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