On a trip, you had to change your money from dollars to British pounds. You got 560 pounds for 800 dollars. How many pounds will you get for 300 dollars?

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asked Jul 20, 2017 54.1k views

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Jmav · Answer 1 · 2017-07-25T13:24:57+0000

210 pounds

First, we are going to find the exchange rate from dollars to pounds.

We know form our problem that 800 dollars are 560 pounds. so:

(560pounds)/(800dollars) =0.7 pounds per dollar.

Next, we are going to multiply our exchange rate by the number of dollars we want to change, 300:

300dollars*(0.7pounds)/(dollar) =210pounds

We will get 210 pounds for 300 dollars