Fred has been saving his pocket money and has six coins in his money box.
Fred picks five of the coins at random.
The most that Fred could pick is £4.60.
The least that Fred could pick is £2.70.
Work out how much money Fred has saved in his money box?
Answer:
The only possible combinations to make £4.60 with 5 coins are:
£2 + £1 + £1 + 50p + 10p
£2 + £2 + 20p + 20p + 20p
If we take away the biggest coin (£2) in both cases, we are left with £2.60 and so would need the sixth coin to be a 10p to make £2.70.
So the total of the six coins = £4.60 + 10p = £4.70