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Question 216218: need help understandin fraction of a dollar.
6 dimes is what fraction of a dollar?
Found 2 solutions by bfdccheerleader16, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by bfdccheerleader16(4) (Show Source):
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60/100 because a dollar is 100/100 and if you only have 6 dimes and dimes are worth 10 a piece you just take 10*6 and you get 60... then you will have 60/100

Answer by jim_thompson5910(21685) (Show Source):
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First, determine how many dimes make a dollar. It turns out that 10 dimes make a dollar (since 10*10 cents = 100 cents)

So the fraction is which reduces to

Another way to look at this is to think: 6 dimes makes 60 cents while a whole dollar is 100 cents. So the fraction is which will reduce to and then finally reduce to