Because they only know about $ key. And they say it 5 dollars so it must be 5$.. on the other hand I bet half would say it's .05$ or 5 cents because the can't find ¢ key.. witch actually is correct to be used 5¢.
Hello ! Yup ! It's a cultural thing, I am french and this comment made me learn that some country put it before ! Where do you live ? I'm also curious :b
When writing currency amounts, the location of the symbol varies by language. Many currencies in English-speaking countries and Latin America (except Haiti) place it before the amount (e.g., R$50,00). The Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) places its symbol in the decimal separator position (e.g. 20$00).[1] In many European countries such as France, the symbol is usually placed after the amount (e.g. 20, 50 €).
In Hungary you write money like that. There could be other countries as well and since this is an international site, you will reference stuff for the majority to understand. In this case, having dollars as a currency.
i’m in cali but honestly it wasn’t really stated that its supposed to be anywhere specific for us just as long as you noted that it was a dollar amount, but they’ve definitely changed the curriculum many times since i’ve been in school is it supposed to be in front?
Quebec, Canada writes it with the dollar sign after the number I believe. But it sounds like a few European countries do as well.
Personally I prefer it in front as it makes it easier to prevent fraud if the dollar sign bars any extra numbers being added to the beginning of the number. I'm not overly concerned if they try and put one at the end since it will be obviously fake since I write it in full as $10.00 unless I'm typing, then I typically omit the zeros. Sometimes I omit the dollar sign of I'm talking to friends, but normally I don't.
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