Videos: Currency Conversions
exchange rates to answer these problems:
Currency In CAD (1 unit of foreign currency buys___CAD)
Australia (AUD) 0.8423 USA (USD) 1.1218
Russian Ruble (RUB) 0.1783 Euro (EUR) 1.4245
New Zealand (NZD) 0.7168 UK pounds (GBP) 1.6523
For example, 1 GBP = 1.6523 CAD
How much Canadian dollars will it take to buy:
(a) 500 Rubles?
(b) 500 Euros?
- You have decided to visit the Thrifty Market in downtown Bellingham. You purchase a quart bottle of Black Cherry Pop for $1.25 per bottle. Is this a better deal than Canadian Pop, which sells for $5.10 per six pack? Solve the problem by changing the US price into a Canadian price per Canadian six pack.
4 quarts = 1 US gallon 6 cans = 1 six pack
1 can of pop = 355 ml 1 gallon = 3.7843 liters.
1 liter = 1000 ml
- You are planning a winter surfing Vacation. You will begin on the North Shore in Hawaii, try to catch the fifty year storm at Bell’s Beach, Australia and finish your trip with a little longboarding on New Zealand’s North Island. You estimate you will need $500 in each currency.
(a) How much Canadian will you need to spend?
(b) When you land in Auckland NZ you discover that you still have $65 USD and $90 AUD in your wallet. How much NZD currency can you get?
