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What Do We Mean by Money and Price?
Money is a type of currency that is used to buy goods and services. Price is the amount of money that is needed to buy goods or services.
How to Ask About Money and Prices
To ask about money, questions like: 'how much is this/that' or 'how much are these/those…?' can be used. These questions can be answered using 'it’s/they’re….'. For example:
How much is the book? It’s 10 dollars.
How much are these pens? They’re 50 dollars.
How to Read Prices
Different structures can be used to read the price of an item. These are the most common ways:
$4.60 → four-sixty
You can just say the numbers.
$4.60 → four dollars sixty
You can say the number + dollars and the number after the decimal point.
$4.60 → four dollars and sixty cents
You can say the number + dollars + 'and' + decimal number + cents.
Tip!
When a price is an exact number, it can be read as the number + dollars/pounds/euros/etc..
$200 → two hundred dollars
$80 → eighty dollars
Tip!
The dollar sign ($) goes before the number and there is no space between the dollar sign and the number.
Quiz:
Which option is the correct way to ask about the price of an item?
How many is this?
How much is this?
How much is this?
How much is this?
How should you read the price "$3.75"?
Three seventy-five.
Three dollars seventy-five.
Three dollars and seventy-five cents.
All of the above.
Match each item or description with the correct corresponding part:
Fill in the blanks with the correct words used when asking about and reading prices.
A: "How
is this?" B: "It's five
and thirty cents.
The shoes cost 40 dollars and 25
.
The price of the jacket is four
ninety-nine.
Fill the table with the correct expression of prices.
| Written | Number |
|---|---|
$15 | |
Nine-seventy | |
Three and twenty | $3.20 |
Twenty dollars ninety-nine | |
One hundred dollars |
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