Cost of Machine Quilting?

Awww ... I know I'm bad at math, but you can't blame me too much for a typo!! :)

Hugs!! Connie :)

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OK, I must stop reading this thread before my brain implodes.

Sherry

No. .0145 is a penny and just under a half. .01 is a penny. 1.00 is a dollar. Any thing past the .01 is less than a whole cent. 1.01 is a dollar and a penny. You're not doing the math right if you get 1.45. 10000 X

0.0145 is 145.00

.0145 is cents. Dollars are on the left of the decimal and cents are on the right of the decimal.

10000 X .0145 does not equal 1.45. It equals 145.00 Your calculator drops the zeros after the decimal.

Ms P

OK this has gotten silly. If you specify denomination the math applies to that denomination. (as I recall from middle school anyway) In other words, you defined the variable as a specific unit, thus the math is done using that particular unit. Makes sense, and explains why you get silly and hard to read dollar amounts in things like utility prices. So going by that .0145 cents is indeed signifcantly less than 1 and 1/2 cents. .0145 dollars would be 1.45 cents. It is all percentages with money, 1 cent is 1% of $1. Thus mathematically you said .0145 of .01, when you specified cents. Your math is fine, it is just you defined the variable incorrectly. It was all in the one word, you meant $.0145, you said .0145¢

Turning math into a word problem is the spot where more people have trouble than anywhere else in basic math, especially money math. It is just exactly stuff like this that has people repeating sections or wrecking their test scores. Defineing the variable will get you every time.

NightMist thankful we do not use imperial m>No. .0145 is a penny and just under a half. .01 is a penny. 1.00 is a

.0145 is simply a decimal number representing a fraction of some whole. It has no value in dollars or cents or pounds or apples until a label is attached. The original poster specifically said ".0145 cents". ".0145 cents is only 1/100th of ".0145 dollars"; it is not the same as 14.5 cents or .0145 dollars.

Julia > .0145 is cents. Dollars are on the left of the decimal and cents are on

imperial money is only for the penguin. :)) i agree with you on the $ thing tho. started to post that reply earlier today and got myself in a muddle trying to explain it accurately and clearly enough. eventually i gave up and deleted my post. figured either someone else'd clear it up or we'd have a few folks running round here like loony toons. snorfle, jeanne

It doesn't matter what the specific unit is. The decimal point never moves.

1.0 is always one whole. 0.01 is always one hundredth. 0.004 is always four thousandths. It doesn't matter if it's money or apples.

Ms P

But it does matter if the whole is a cent or a dollar...

Hanne > It doesn't matter what the specific unit is. The decimal point never=20

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A whole cent is still written as .01. 1.0 will never mean a whole cent. At least not in American dollars. One cent is always one hundredth of a dollar. American money is expressed as 111.11. That's one hundred eleven dollars and eleven cents. You can write it as 11¢ but it is understood that it's .11

Hanne > It doesn't matter what the specific unit is. The decimal point never

"A whole cent is still written as .01" -- only true if you use "$" before it or write "dollars" after it. The problem was that the amount was originally written as .01 cents, which always has and always will be a one-hundredth of a cent, not a whole cent.

(Math major and business owner -- I do know what I'm talking about here. And this common confusion is why I price my machine quilting by the square foot, not the square inch. *grin* )

GOOD GRIEF!

I SHOULD HAVE NOT PUT THE WORDS 'CENTS' AFTER THE DECIMAL! I'M SORRY! I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN, I PROMISE ON A STACK OF FAT QUARTERS!

Trust me. When I ring up your quilt, I will charge you the correct amount. Six dollars and ninety-six cents is too little; six hundred ninety-six dollars is too much;sixty-nine dollars and sixty cents is just right. (Based on a 60"x80" quilt.)

You people take dead horse beating to a whole new level. While this was going on, I made four Sox Boxes and three organza bags for lace scarves. Next, little fabric bags for the guys' scarves.

joan :>

I've enjoyed reading it.........made me forget the pain level for a lil while....just waiting to 'see' how it was going to be explained a lil differently each time and trying to fathom the reasoning behind it :)

Butterfly (sure beat having to take another PK for the day: )

Ok.......is this a 'sublet beg' for one of her prezzies OR is it that you wish you were accomplishing something.

Butterfly ( making sure no beg goes unnoticed)

Howdy!

LOL!!

R/S

Howdy!

LOL part2!!!

Thanks, Joan. Kind of in the same category as the "t" word, which can really get some on a "roll". ;-D

R/Sandy

"joan8904 >> GOOD GRIEF!