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how do you get 3/11 from this: If you have four quarters, three dimes, two nickels, and two pennies, what fraction of the whole coin
collection is in dimes?

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Answer:

  3/11

Step-by-step explanation:

The total number of coins is ...

  4 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 11.

The fraction of the collection that we're interested in is ...

  (number that are dimes)/(number of coins in the collection)

Of those 11 coins, 3 are dimes, so 3/11 of the coins are dimes.

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