Money and Fractions

Write the amount as a fraction:

2 quarters

• $\frac{1}{4}$

• $\frac{50}{100}$

• $\frac{2}{10}$

• 50

Answer explanation

Since each quarter is 25 cents out of 100 cents total in a dollar, and two quarters is 50 cents, then we can say that 2 quarters is 50 out of the total 100 cents needed to have a dollar.

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

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Write the amount as a decimal:

2 quarters =

• 50

• 25

• 0.25

• 0.50

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CCSS.2.MD.C.8

True or False:

3 dimes and 5 pennies =  0.35

• False

• True

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CCSS.3.NBT.A.2

When reading 0.35 as a decimal, you say:

• thirty-five

• zero point three five

• thirty-five hundredths

• 3 dimes and 5 pennies

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CCSS.2.NBT.A.3

Write the amount as a fraction:

0.35 =

• $\frac{35}{100}$

• 3 $\frac{5}{100}$

• $\frac{35}{10}$

• $\frac{035}{100}$

Answer explanation

Because 3 dimes and 5 pennies gives you 35 cents out of 100 cents needed to have a whole dollar, that amount can be written as $\frac{35}{100}$

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

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Write the amount as a fraction of a dollar:

3 quarters

•  $\frac{1}{2}$  

•  $\frac{3}{4}$  

• 0.75

•  $\frac{75}{10}$  

Answer explanation

If you have 3 quarters, you have 3 out of the 4 parts needed to have a whole dollar.

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2

What's another way to write the amount as a fraction:

3 quarters =

• $\frac{75}{100}$

• $\frac{75}{10}$

• $\frac{1}{4}$

• $\frac{2}{8}$

Answer explanation

3 quarters is 75 cents. You have 75 of the cents out of the total 100 cents in a dollar.

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.3

Write the amount as a fraction of a dollar:

7 dimes =

• $\frac{7}{1}$

• 70 cents

• 0.7

• $\frac{7}{10}$

Answer explanation

If you have 7 dimes, you have 7 parts out of the 10 parts that dimes breaks a dollar into.

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

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What's another way to write the amount as a fraction:

7 dimes =

• $\frac{7}{1}$

• 70 cents

• $\frac{70}{100}$

• 0.7

Answer explanation

Since 7 dimes is worth 70 cents, and it takes 100 cents to have a whole dollar, you can say that you have $\frac{70}{100}$ of a dollar.

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CCSS.3.NF.A.1

CCSS.3.NF.A.2

CCSS.3.NF.A.3

7 dimes can be written as either   0.7   OR  0.70  in decimal form.  

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Both decimals have the 7 in the tenths place with no other places having any value.

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CCSS.2.MD.C.8