What is $120?

What is $120? It’s like having 12 big chocolate bars, each one worth $10.

Imagine you have a piggy bank full of coins and bills. If you take out $120, it's like taking out twelve $10 notes, or twelve times ten pennies, that’s 120 little coins!

How Big is $120?

Think about your favorite snack. If a bag of chips costs $1, then $120 is like having 120 bags of chips, enough for a whole month of snacks!

Or picture a toy you really want that costs $10. With $120, you could buy twelve of those toys, one for every week of the year!

It’s not magic, just numbers we use to count how much things cost or how much money we have, like counting your candies after a big day at the store. What is $120? It’s like having 12 big chocolate bars, each one worth $10.

Imagine you have a piggy bank full of coins and bills. If you take out $120, it's like taking out twelve $10 notes, or twelve times ten pennies, that’s 120 little coins!

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  1. A child receives $120 as a gift for their birthday.
  2. You save up $120 to buy a new video game.
  3. A pizza costs $12, so two pizzas would be $24, but $120 could get you ten of them.

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