Using Symbols to Solve Problems

Source - Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money. by Amy Axelrod, 1994

After eating everything at home the Pigs decide to scavenger for money. They search the house and find loose change and bills enough to go for Mexican food at the Enchanted Enchilada. While there are some inaccuracies it is possible to calculate a value for the money found by the Pigs and a menu is provided to speculate what the Pigs may have feasted on.

The pigs found

1.00 + 2.00 + .10 + .05 + .25 + 5.00 + 1.00 + 1.00 + .50 + .17 + .60 + 1.00 + 2.00 =

I used a calculator and found the total was

$34.67

 

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