Finding Lucy. Don Johanson describes finding the knee joint in Hadar, Ethiopia, that first indicated a bipedal hominid had lived 3 million years ago. His subsequent expedition led to the discovery of Lucy, a 40 percent complete skeleton of a new species of hominid, now known as Australopithecus afarensis. The final piece of the puzzle was a skull from the same site, which clearly demonstrated that Lucy's kind were small-brained, although they walked upright.
How many dimes make a dollar? A: According to Dictionary.com, a dime in the United States is equivalent to 10 cents ($0.1), which means that 10 dimes make a dollar. The currency site Xe notes that the dime coin is one of the most frequently used in the United States, alongside the 1-, 5- and 25-cent coins. Continue Reading.
Here is the best method of manually determining the amount of coins in a roll. Here's an example formula: Most should now know a roll of quarters have a face value of $10.00 and a one quarter is .25 cents, so we can divide $10.00 by .25 and this equals 40, and is the correct number of coins in a roll of quarters. So, the next time you count your coins you won't be guessing how many go into each roll. Nickels contain $2.00 and one nickel is .05 cents, so $2.00 divides by .05 cents equals 40 coins. It doesn't matter if the roll is paper, bank wrapped or in plastic tubes, all contain the same amount of coins for each denomination.