If I see "##Question_Title##.02 cents" written, is this two one-hundredths of a penny or two pennies?

Question

If I see "$0.02 cents" written, is this two one-hundredths of a penny or two pennies?

Answer 1

two pennies

Answer 2

That is ambiguous because the "$0.02" part implies two pennies, but the "cents" suffixed to it is confusing and superfluous.  

If it were written "0.02 cents" (i.e. w/o the "$" dollar sign), then it would mean 2/100 ths of a cent.

Answer 3

"$0.02 cents" doesn't make any sense, because there are two units: Dollars and cents.

Saying "$0.02 cents" is as incorrect as saying "100 minutes hours."

Saying $0.02 means 0.02 dollars, which is 2 cents, or (in your words), 2 pennies; saying 0.02 cents means two one-hundredths of a penny.

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If you saw "$0.02 cents" somewhere, my best guess is that it means 2 cents, because there are many more occasions where it's appropriate to refer to 2 pennies than there are that it's appropriate to refer to two one-hundredths of a penny.

But that doesn't change the fact that it's technically nonsense.

Answer 4

It's 2 one hundredths of a dollar, which is 2 pennies.

Actually, if you want to get really technical, the way it's written, "$.02 cents" is 2 one hundredths of a penny, but they probably mean 2 cents or $.02.  If this is a problem from your teacher, you can point out that if they meant 2 cents, then $.02 cents is incorrect.