1$ = 1 cent
LHS 1$=100 cents
= (10X10)cents
= (1/10x1/10)$
= (1/100)$
= 1 cent
LHS=RHS
2006-09-20 02:54:53 · 14 answers · asked by rahul 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
$.01 = 1 Cent.
2006-09-20 02:57:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem here starts is in the way you've expressed the third line of your problem:
= (10X10)cents
What this notation implies is, put another way:
=10 cents x 10 cents
Which would be 100 cents squared - mathematically amusing but financially nonsense!
Instead what you really mean is:
=10 x (10 cents)
That is, 10 lots of 10 cents, or 100 cents. Right so far?
OK, now your next line would be:
=10 x (1/10 $)
Which is $1, obviously.
The way you've written this line:
= (1/10x1/10)$
...the answer would be one-hundredth of a dollar squared. See how this all went wrong?
2006-09-20 11:17:45 · answer #2 · answered by longdancingboy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u were wrong in the first step itself ...(10 * 10 ) cents.....
Presuming it to be correct (the logic is explained below) the next step (1/10 * 1/10) $ is again wrong.....
although ten cents is $1/10,... when multiplying the logic used here is wrong.... i mean to say units cannot be used under the distributive property. In other words units cannot be just tagged along with the nos in multiplication (it is possible only in addition or subtraction)....
Take this example....
Consider a rectangle of length 1cm and breadth 2 cm... we say the total perimeter to be 1cm + 2cm +1cm + 2cm = 6cm That is (1+2+1+2) cm
But when u calculate the area....length x breadth
1 cm * 2 cm = 2 cm^2 and not (1*2) cm.... When units are multiplied it becomes square units...cubic units and so on....
In ur argument 100 cents cannot be written as (10*10) cents...although 100 = 10*10.....Suppose the left hand side was also measured in cents then we could cancel out the units and be left with nos. which would mean 100 = 10*10 would fit for substitution. But here we have dollars and cents and we cannot cancel them out.
Hence in effect even if it were to be as (10cents *10cents ) which would make it as 100 cents^2 but the previous term to be substituted is only 100 cents and not cents^2.
Hence ur argument is wrong!!!!!
2006-09-20 10:36:39 · answer #3 · answered by Inferno 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHOA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u went fine till the 2nd step.. (10X10)cents..
then in the middle of it all you changed to $?? and in the end again to cent??? get a grip of the units buddy.. make the correct conversions...
Solve it as an equation.. you are just tampering the 100 cents part..
1$=100 cents
1$=(10X10)cents
1/100$ = 1 cent
0.01$ = 1 cent....
And if you are eveluating only LHS or RHS you cannot just switch units like that...
2006-09-20 10:14:37 · answer #4 · answered by noesis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 10 X 10 cents both the tens are numbers. 10 is not equal to 1/10
2006-09-20 11:43:22 · answer #5 · answered by Rajesh Kochhar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, 1 usd does not equal 1 cent. it takes 100 cents to make a dollar.
2006-09-20 09:57:12 · answer #6 · answered by soar_2307 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how the hell does 10*10 cents equal 1/10*1/10 dollars? it would equal 1*1 dollars.
2006-09-20 10:02:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u r right until =(10*10)
2006-09-20 09:58:18 · answer #8 · answered by whatever 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$1=100c or $.01=1c
2006-09-20 10:03:23 · answer #9 · answered by slippie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I smell a bad scent (BS perhaps)
2006-09-20 10:03:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋