{"id":239878,"date":"2025-07-03T05:53:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=239878"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:53:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:53:03","slug":"two-coins-add-up-to-30-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/03\/two-coins-add-up-to-30-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Two coins add up to 30 cents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two coins add up to 30 cents. One of them is not nickel. What are the coins?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two coins are a quarter (25 cents) and a nickel (5 cents). The riddle states that “one of them is not a nickel.” This phrasing can be a bit tricky because it doesn’t necessarily mean that neither of the coins is a nickel. It simply means that one of the coins is not a nickel, which could mean the other coin is a nickel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s how to break it down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The total value of the coins is 30 cents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. If you consider a quarter (worth 25 cents) and a nickel (worth 5 cents), their total value is indeed 30 cents.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The riddle says that “one of them is not a nickel,” and in this case, it refers to the quarter. The quarter is not a nickel, so this statement is satisfied.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. The other coin is the nickel, which fits the requirement of being a nickel.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The phrasing of the riddle leads to the conclusion that a quarter and a nickel are the two coins in question. The trick here lies in interpreting “one of them is not a nickel” as referring to the quarter, not ruling out the possibility of the other coin being a nickel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two coins add up to 30 cents. One of them is not nickel. What are the coins? The correct answer and explanation is: The two coins are a quarter (25 cents) and a nickel (5 cents). The riddle states that “one of them is not a nickel.” This phrasing can be a bit tricky because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}