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Paul owes Paula 35 cents and has a pocket full of 5-cent coins, 10-cent coins, and 25-cent coins that he can use to pay her. What is the difference between the largest and the smallest number of coins he can use to pay her?
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the least coins to pay back would be one 35 cent coin, but there isn't such a coin. But we can use 2 coins: one 25 cents, and one of 10 cents: so the smallest amount is 2 coins.

the largest amount of coins is achieved by using the coins with the smallest value: this would be the 5-cent-coins. so we'd need 35/7=7; 7 such coins

so the different is between 7 and 2 coins, that is 5 coins difference!