If I have 50 20c stamps, how much dollars do I have altogether?
for some reason these types of questions confuse me
If I have 50 20c stamps, how much dollars do I have altogether?
You can't tell how many dollars you have from the information given.
You can, however, tell how many dollars worth of stamps you have.
50 x 20¢ is the same as 50 x 0.20 $. Do you see what I did there?
$0.20 is just another way to write 20¢.
50 x $0.20 = $10.00 You have ten dollars worth of stamps.
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