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(I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it’s supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you’d ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)
About $3.50
E: also why do we say “three dollars and fifty cents” when it’s clearly “dollar three [and] fifty [cents]”. Language weird, return to grunts.
Boss: locks you in the building
Boss: you live here now. I expect 3x productivity for a $0.50 cent raise with a maximum daily rate of quiet mumbling. Problem solved!
How much is half a dollar cents in USD?
(I wrote that when groggy, but my thinking was that it’s supposed to be read aloud/verbally, so you’d ignore the $ and say the cents. My brain was still asleep.)
About $3.50
E: also why do we say “three dollars and fifty cents” when it’s clearly “dollar three [and] fifty [cents]”. Language weird, return to grunts.
Because it’s translation, not transliteration.
Uh, $0.50 or 50¢? Is this a trick question?
I think their point is that you would already read $0.50 as 50 cents, so adding the word cent to that makes it redundant.
Ah good call