Question

Help!
Emily took 500 U.S. dollars to the bank to exchange for Canadian dollars. The exchange rate on that day was 1.2 Canadian dollars per U.S. dollar. How many Canadian dollars did she get in exchange for the 500 U.S. dollars?
plz explain!

Answer 1

@Howard-Wolowitz

Answer 2

@TheCuteOne25 @Jemurray3 @Kitten_is_back @Tennis5518

Answer 3

@agent0smith ????????????

Answer 4

Set up the proportion?

Answer 5

how would I do that?

Answer 6

If you had 1 US dollar, how many Canadian dollars would you get?

If you had 2 US dollars, how many Canadian would you get?

Answer 7

1.20 and then 2.40?

Answer 8

Yes.

what about 3 US dollars to Canadian?

What about 500 US dollars?

Answer 9

3.60

Answer 10

Would it be 600?

Answer 11

Yep, how'd you get 600? What did you do?

Answer 12

multiplied by 1.2

Answer 13

to 500

Answer 14

Yep. See, that's how you can work out problems like this. That's how I often work them out!

Start small, and see if you can figure out how to do it. Start with 1 dollar, then 2, then keep going if you can't see the pattern.

Answer 15

Wait so it 698.84 Canadian Dollar

Answer 16

@Tennis5518 how did you get that?

Answer 17

honestly idk