Joanie wants to mail a package that requires $1.23 in postage. If she has only 5-cent and 7-cent stamps, what is the smallest number of stamps she could use that would total exactly $1.23?
Joanie wants to mail a package that requires $1.23 in postage. If she has only 5-cent and 7-cent stamps, what is the smallest number of stamps she could use that would total exactly $1.23?
Given that, we have two types of stamps, one is of 5 cents and another is of 7 cents.
The total amount of stamp,
We need to minimize the number of stamps. So, we can take a smaller number of 5 cent stamps.
Let, y be the total number of stamps, and x be the number of 5 cent stamps. So,
Both x and y are positive integers. And these values...
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