Fin and Snoot use different coin and note combinations to buy a toy from Earth.
NARRATOR: Hello Snoot, hello Finn.
ALIENS: (Alien language.)
NARRATOR: I see you’re at the intergalactic market, what are you buying?
ALIENS: (Alien language.)
NARRATOR: Ah yes, on Earth that’s called a space hopper. But how much is it?
ALIEN: Alien language.
Narrator: £7.75p, what a bargain!
Better change some credits into Earth money.
What did you get?
ALIEN: Er…
NARRATOR: Let’s see… you’ve got one five pound note, three, one pound coins and four, 50p pieces.
£5 plus £3 makes £8, plus one 50p, makes £8.50. Plus another 50p makes £9, plus 50p, makes £9.50. Plus one more 50p, makes £10 altogether.
ALIENS: Ah ha!
NARRATOR: What money are you going to use to buy the space hopper?
ALIEN: (Alien language.)
NARRATOR: Good plan Snoot. A five pound note, plus three one pound coins, makes eight pounds altogether.
The space hopper cost £7.75p. £8.00 take away £7, leaves £1.
And £1 take away 75p, leaves 25p change.
ALIEN: (Alien language.)
NARRATOR: Ok Finn, if you want to do it another way…
You prefer to take the five pound note. Add two, one pound coins, to make £7. Add one, 50p, to make £7.50, and another 50p to make £8 altogether.
£8 take away £7.75 for the space hopper, leaves you with 25p change again.
ALIEN: (Alien language.)
NARRATOR: I know Snoot, it’s the same as what you had. That’s how it works with money.
You can use different combinations to make up the same price.
Five pounds plus three one pound coins, makes eight pounds.
And five pounds, plus two one pound coins, and two 50 pence pieces, makes eight pounds as well.
ALIENS: Ah ha!
NARRATOR: Now, where did that space hopper get to?
ALIEN: Hello.
NARRATOR: Oh I see Plimble likes to bounce.
CRASH!
ALIEN: Ahh!
Different notes and coins can make the same total
Money comes in lots of different notes and coins
Notes come in £5, £10, £20 and £50. Some Scottish banks make £100 notes too.
Coins come in 1p,2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2.
You can use different notes and coins to make the same amounts. The bigger the amount of money, the more ways there are to make it:
There is only 1 way to make 1p
- one 1p coin.
There are 2 ways to make 2p
- one 2p coin
- 1p + 1p
There are 4 ways to make 5p
- one 5p coin
- 2p + 2p + 1p
- 2p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 1p + 1p + 1p+ 1p + 1p
There are 11 ways to make 10p
- one 10p coin
- 5p +5p
- 5p + 2p + 2p + 1p
- 5p + 2p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 5p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 2p + 2p + 2p + 2p + 2p
- 2p + 2p + 2p + 2p + 1p + 1p
- 2p + 2p + 2p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 2p + 2p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 2p + 1p + 1p + 1p+ 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p
- 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p + 1p
There are 41 ways to make 20p - too many to write here!
There are so many different ways of adding money that you can usually pick one that works best for you.
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