Math must have been different when I was going to school. I need to learn the new monetary system. I get confused when going into stores and seeing some items for .50c while others that should cost less are 5c. Also, whats up with having items on sale for 110% off?
2007-08-01 18:07:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The answer is that the store clerks didn't pay much attention to math in school!
Fifty cents and five cents should be written as follows (I don't have a cent symbol on my keyboard, so have used "c" as you did):
50c ; 5c - - - or
$.50 and $.05
500 cents is $5.00 and a half cent is $.005 or .5c
Please let me know where there is a sale with 110% off! I am going there and demand that I be given the item free plus be paid 10% of its price!
P.S. I shouldn't have answered the original question because I am not that "anyone who thinks .50c is fifty cents!"
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2007-08-01 18:19:40 · answer #1 · answered by Serendipity 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
500 cents =$5.00 (5 dollars) because there are 100 cents or pennies to 1 dollar. The ".50 cent" sign is totally wrong because we have not had 1/2 cents in the United States since 1857 (began in 1793, and were made of nearly pure copper). Technically 50 cents should written out as 0.50 and 5 cents as 0.05. As for the 110%--people think they are giving you a bargain if they make it more than 100%. But, in a percentage exercise on www.mathgoodies.com, it shows 150% being written as 1.50 . I would assume that a 110% off-sale would mean items' prices are totally reduced to nothing plus an extra 10%. LOL Seriously though, "percent" is from the Latin PER CENTUM which means "parts per 100", and a percentage is a ratio whose second term is 100 and written as a fraction (example=the ratio 77:100=77/100=77%). Since 0.01 equals 1 cent, half of that would be 0.005 (you divide 0.01 by 2 to get your half).
2007-08-01 20:36:45 · answer #2 · answered by jan51601 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 12:54:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
technically, since one dollar is $1.00 and ninety-nine cents can be notated as 99¢ or $.99, .50¢ is one-half of one cent.
if you want to notate fifty cents it is $.50 or 50¢. five hundred cents can be 500¢ or $5.00
don't know about the 110% off. either it's a typo or they're giving stuff away
2007-08-01 18:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by Hillary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500 cents= $5.00, 500c
1/2 cent= $0.005, .5c
2007-08-01 19:08:34 · answer #5 · answered by I want a lawyer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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and yes.......it is very sore. did you tell everybody that it was you that kept giving me 50 cent over and over. trust me, it was worth so much more!! starred!!
2016-04-08 09:06:43 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋