Question

Kenya exchanges $150 for British pounds(£). Suppose the conversion rate is £1 = $1.60. How many pounds should she receive?

Answer 1

Any ideas?

Answer 2

have no clue

Answer 3

What does " £1 = $1.60 " mean?

Answer 4

first you would devide the amount of the conversion 1.60 by 150 dollars to get your answer

Answer 5

oops multiply that

Answer 6

try to set up the units to "cancel out"

Answer 7

$$\Huge \dfrac{ £1}{$1.60}$$

Answer 8

$$\Huge $150 \times \dfrac{ £1}{$1.60}$$

Answer 9

skullpatrol is on target (as usual). " What does " £1 = $1.60 " mean?"

This equation shows the equivalence of two different word currencies.

If you bought something for 1 pound in London, you'd pay something like $1.60 back home for the same thing.

If you have $150 and want to exchange that for British Pound Sterling,

Make a conversion factor from £1 = $1.60: \[\frac{ £1 }{ $1.60 }=1\]

I chose this because we want to eliminate $ in favor of £.

Answer 10

Now multiply $150 by that conversion factor.