You go to a convenience store to buy candy and find the owner to be rather odd. He

Chapter 2, Problem 2

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You go to a convenience store to buy candy and find the owner to be rather odd. He allows you to buy pieces only in multiples of four, and to buy four, you need $0.23. He allows you only to use 3 pennies and 2 dimes. You have a bunch of pennies and dimes, and instead of counting them, you decide to weigh them. You have 636.3 g of pennies, and each penny weighs an average of 3.03 g. Each dime weighs an average of 2.29 g. Each piece of candy weighs an average of 10.23 g. a. How many pennies do you have? b. How many dimes do you need to buy as much candy as possible? c. How much would all of your dimes weigh? d. How many pieces of candy could you buy (based on the number of dimes from part b)? e. How much would this candy weigh? f. How many pieces of candy could you buy with twice as many dimes?