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If you have 50 pence left after spending 90% of your money, it means you spent 90 pence (since 90% of a pound is 90 pence). To find out how much money you started with, you need to calculate what 10% of the total amount would be. Since 10% is half of 20%, you can double the amount you have left, 50 pence, to get 100 pence. Therefore, you started with 1 pound.
Five pence. Most countries that used pence have switched to different currencies. so it's most likely describing money from the United Kingdom.
At risk of being cheeky two twenty pence coins would be 40 pence. If you mean in US dollars then its about 60 cents going up and down depending on the exchange rate.
The 5 pence coin is worth only around 8 cents in US currency, or 5 pence in the UK.
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1 new pence is worth approximately 1.4 cents in American money.
The British Ten Pence coin was not issued until 1968.
2 pence GBP in 1988 had the same buying power as $0.06 USD.
60 Pence is three-fifths (or 60%) of a Pound.
Let x be the amount of money Amy had initially. If she spent 30% on a book, she spent 0.3x on the book. She saved 60%, which means she saved 0.6x. Since she had 20 pence left, we can set up the equation 0.1x = 20. Solving for x, we find that Amy had 200 pence initially.
The Tudors used coins of which the "penny" was the basic monetary unit Other typical coins from the period were Farthing = 1/4 penny Half penny = 1/2 penny Penny = basic monetary unit Half groat = 2 pence Threepence = 3 pence Groat = 4 pence Sixpence = 6 pence Shilling = 12 pence = 1s Half crown = 30 pence = 2s 6d Half crown = 30 pence = 2s 6d Crown = 60 pence = 5s Crown = 60 pence = 5s Half angel = 60 pence = 5s Angel = 120 pence = 10s Half sovereign = 120 pence = 10s Sovereign = 240 pence = 20s = £1 Fine Sovereign = 360 pence = 30s = £1 10s
Pence is the plural of Penny ie. 1 Penny, 2 Pence.
One old shilling is the equivalent of a modern 5 pence (each being 1/20 of a pound). Shillings were still legal tender as 5 pence until the early 1990s. 12 times 5 is 60 pence.
60 US cents is equal to 38 pence. Conversion as of 20th December 2014. Note; exchange rates change daily.
There are 100 pence in a pound So 5 twenty-pence coins make a pound. If there are 12 pounds in the bag, and it only contains twenty-pence coins, then there must be 12 times 5 twenty-pence coins. 12 x 5 = 60 60 twenty-pence coins = £12.00