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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.