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LESSON 8
We can also write this amount as 50¢ using a
different symbol that shows money. The symbol
¢ means cents. Earlier I wrote $.05 under the
picture of the nickel. We read this as five cents
even though we write a dollar sign in front of it.
The placement of the 05 to the right of the
decimal shows that a nickel is part of a dollar. In
the same way, we can write $.25 for 25 cents.
Can you read these amounts
$.01 = 1 cent (1¢ or 1 penny)
$.05 = 5 cents (5¢ or 1 nickel)
$.10 = 10 cents (10¢ or 1 dime)
$.25 = 25 cents (25¢ or 1 quarter)
$1.00 = 1 dollar
$5.00 = 5 dollars
$10.00 = 10 dollars
Applied Mathematics • 77