...when people use the word quarter when talking about time, it means 15 minutes instead of 25 (Example- I'll be over at a quarter to 8)???
2006-09-09 05:24:42 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
No quarter means one-fourth, so it does not mean 25 or 15 necessarily. Whatever the full value is divided by 4( of the simplest value i.e. cents). So for example, one dollar (100 cents) divided by 4 is 25. But an hour (60 minutes) divided by 4 (minutes) equals 15. Hope this clears some things up.
2006-09-09 05:30:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a quarter is 1/4 of anything. .25 i a 1/4 of a dollar. 15 minutes is 1/4 of an hour. this is why they say its a quarter past 6 or a quarter till 6.
2006-09-09 05:30:24 · answer #2 · answered by Keith Perry 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a quarter of something is 1/4. 25 is 1/4 of 100 (cents), and 15 is 1/4 of 60 (minutes).
2006-09-09 05:26:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because fifteen minutes is one quarter of an hour. 15 x 4=60. They aren't referring to the coin, they are referring to the fraction, just like the coin quarter is one quarter of a dollar. 25 x 4=100
2006-09-09 05:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
25 cents is a quarter of a dollar.
A quarter in time is a quarter of 60 minutes
2006-09-09 05:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because a "quarter" means one fourth of something. So a quarter (25 cents) is one fourth of a dollar. And a quarter (15 minutes) is one fourth of an hour.
2006-09-09 05:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a quarter means one-fourth!
1/4 of a dollar = 25 cents
1/4 of an hour = 15 minutes
Different bases of units (100 units in a dollar, 60 units in an hour) means that one quarter of those bases will be different as well!
2006-09-09 05:26:24 · answer #7 · answered by I ♥ AUG 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
25 cents is one quarter of a dollar but 15 minutes is one quarter of an hour.
2006-09-09 05:26:37 · answer #8 · answered by AD 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because their is 4 quarters in an hour so 15 minutes is 1/4 of an hour or 60 minutes. 15times 4=60
2006-09-09 05:44:03 · answer #9 · answered by Bighorn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably got chewed up in some machine. Take it to a coin shop and let them look at it. If it came out of the bag like that it may be worth a couple of bucks. In the USA anything older than 1964 is coin silver, 90%. They are generally worth about 15 times face value unless it is rare. Silver dollars are generally 20 times face value minimum.
2016-03-27 04:05:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋