Count Your Change
The first step is to count your coins:
4 dimes = $0.40
1 nickel = $0.05
4 dimes + 1 nickel = $0.45.
Making Cents
How do you represent change with fractions?
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Goal:
Fractions are another way to represent amounts of money. The chart below demonstrates how to write an amount of money as a fraction. One dollar is equal to 100 cents. This is why cents, or change, is recorded into the hundredths place.
To record cents as a fraction, use the denominator of 100.
How are cents, or change, written as a fraction? Review the slides to find out how to represent money values that are less than a dollar as a fraction.
What’s the Denominator?
When working with money, one whole dollar represents the whole group. This means the denominator will be 100, because 100 cents equals 1 dollar.
Know Your Numerator
The numerator of a fraction represents the part of the whole dollar that you have.
When working with money, the numerator is your cents. In this example, you have 45 cents. This means the fraction will be \(\mathsf{ \frac{45}{100} }\).
Time to practice! Use what you have learned to record each amount of change as a fraction. When ready, click a box to reveal the solution.
