Ella's grandmother sewed her a change purse. When she gifted it to her, Ella counted 23 coins already in it. Ella noticed there were only dimes and quarters worth $4.70. How many dimes were in the change purse?

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.