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To: JimRed
And my example shorted him two bucks! Correction follows...

Most of today's kids can't even handle the math of "That's $2.79...Out of $20. Eighty, ninety, three, four, five; five is ten, and ten is twenty. Thanks, come again."

Pride goeth before a fall.

31 posted on 02/10/2016 10:19:03 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

I have found that in general, the kids running cash registers at farm-markets know how to count back change.


35 posted on 02/10/2016 1:38:11 PM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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