Fractions Money

What fraction of a dollar are these nickels?

• 3/10

• 6/20

• 3/4

• 6/10

What fraction of a dollar are these pennies?

• 6/100

• 3/10

• 6/20

• 3/4

What fraction of a dollar are these quarters?

• 1/4

• 3/10

• 2/4

• 3/4

What fraction of a dollar is $ .50?

• 1/4

• 2/4 or 1/2

• 3/4

• 2/10

Write the amount as a fraction:

0.35 =

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 $\frac{35}{100}$

Write the amount as a fraction of a dollar:

3 quarters

• 0.75

Answer explanation

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

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

Answer explanation

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

Write the amount as a fraction of a dollar:

7 dimes =

• 70 cents

• 0.7

Answer explanation

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

Write the amount as a fraction:

2 quarters

• 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.

Use money fractions to solve 1/4 + 2/5

• 60/100

• 40/100

• 65/100

• 70/100