[Taltarzac725]

The Rialto prices are also $7.25 up two quarters from a few weeks ago. When I moved to the Villages in June of 2005 the price was $5.75, so there have not been that many price increases in the past 8 years.

[Gerald]

the price change may not be due to the movie theater but due to the renting of the rights to play the movies.

[rayschic]

Originally Posted by blueash

You are making a common mistake. Read your post again. You may write twenty five cents as 25 cents. However if you write .25 cents that is one quarter of a penny. If your are talking in dollars then 0.25 is one quarter dollar, or fifty cents would be $0.50 a half dollar.

A nickel is .05 dollars not .05 cents. A nickel is 5 cents. The problem with your initial post is that you said the cost went up .50 cents which is one half of a penny. Do the simple math. 0.50 is 50 one hundreths of whatever unit you are describing. 0.50 miles is a half mile and cannot be used to mean fifty miles. So 0.50 cents is a half cent. If you had left off the word "cent" as your defining unit of measure then no problem as we all would have understood it to mean dollars. Notice in the helpful resource you have quoted. They clearly indicate that 25c ( no decimal point) is twenty five cents. They did not say that 0.25c is twenty five cents. That is what you errantly are suggesting.

blueash,
You might appreciate this. A person was asked " If it's a quarter past three, what time is it? " She answered, "3:25" Her logic was there are 25 cents in a quarter and she was dead serious. LOL