We all read $25.50 as twenty-five dollars and fifty cents...me
included. But technically isn't this twenty-five and fifty hundredths
dollars? Why do we mix units when we read this denomination? This
often comes up in my basic mathematics classes.
And .25 cents...my students tell me that this is a quarter everytime.
They can't seem to grasp hundredths of a cent. Do others encounter this
also?
Just wonder?????
Monty
Guilford Technical CC
Jamestown, NC 27282
"To teach is to touch a life forever."
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