Count Your Money
Just like with amounts that are only cents, the first thing you need to do is count your money.
Here you have $1.35.
Dollars and Cents as Fractions
How do you represent whole dollars and cents as fractions?
Goal:
Goal:
Most times, there will be amounts of money that contain whole dollars and cents. How do you represent these amounts as fractions? Work through the slides to find out.
Mixed Numbers
A mixed number is when you have a whole number and a fraction together. When you have amounts of money that include both whole dollars and cents, you will have a mixed number.
Your whole dollar amounts will be the whole number of your mixed number. In this example, you have 1 whole dollar. This means that the whole number will be 1.
What’s the Fraction?
Earlier in the lesson, you learned how to write cents as a fraction. Those same steps apply here.
Count your cents, and record the amount over a denominator of 100. In this example, you have 35 cents. As a fraction, that would be \(\mathsf{ \frac{35}{100} }\).
Put It All Together
Now all you need to do is put your whole number with your fraction to create your final mixed number. You have 1 whole dollar. Your fraction for your coins is \(\mathsf{ \frac{35}{100} }\).
When you put the values together, you have a mixed number of \(\mathsf{1 \frac{35}{100} }\).
Time to practice! Using what you have learned, record each amount of money as a fraction. Click the box to check your answers.