Question

Solve proportion

Latanya made a 17 minute phone call from her hotel in France and was charged 17 euro. At the time, $1 worth 0.82 euro. Find the cost per minute of the calls in dollars

Answer 1

This is a conversion type of question

Answer 2

So.. it tells you $1 = 0.82 euro

1/ 0.82= ??? <---This will be your conversion factor

Since it costed you 17 euros, how many dollars would it be?

17 x ??? = $ ___

Answer 3

i dont know

Answer 4

Could you at least try to plug in the numbers into a calculator? I already set up the equations.

Answer 5

im consfused so its 1/0.82 = 17 times ???

Answer 6

Okay forst of all do you know how to convert things?

Answer 7

first*

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

Okay so if 1 full dollar = 0.82 of a dollar, can we agree that an euro is worth more than a dollar?

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

Alright so if we want to know how many dollars 17 euro equals? It would help if we knew how much 1 full euro equals to, yes?

Answer 12

yes

Answer 13

But let's say we want to know by how many times more a euro is worth, than a dollar.

So 1/0.82 is...?

Answer 14

you want me to divide that

Answer 15

Mhmm

Answer 16

what?

Answer 17

Yes divide it.

Answer 18

1.213

Answer 19

Alright so let's just round it to 2 decimal places. 1.21 <-- this is how much one euro is worth in dollars

Answer 20

So now that you know what one euro is worth, how much would 17 euros be worth?

Answer 21

Did you get it?

Answer 22

1/0.82=x/17 Cross multiply to get:

0.82x=17
x=$20.73

Divide: $20.73/17 min=$1.22 per minute