Mariah was cleaning out her purse and found a handful of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. She found 16 coins in all.

She had:

• the same number of nickels as pennies.
• $1.00 in quarters.
• 2 more dimes than quarters.

Use this information and the following U.S. coin values to answer the question below.

• 5 pennies = 5 cents, or 1 nickel
• 2 nickels = 10 cents, or 1 dime
• 5 nickels = 25 cents, or 1 quarter
• 4 quarters = 100 cents, or 1 dollar, written $1.00

How much money did she find in all?