I used to do well with mental arithmetic, but now there are times I cannot even recall multiplication tables. As to the matter of making change, however, this is the very simplest and most accurate way:
Aimless wrote:
I used to have to make change and I dealt with it by counting up to the nearest dollar. If someone gave me a $5.00 for a $ 3.73 bill I would count 2 pennies to 3.75 and then a quarter to make 4 and then a dollar to equal 5.
Most of us older folks had been taught that and had it down pat after "playing store" in about third grade!
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