In Mexico, avocados are 48 pesos per kilogram. What is the cost, in cents, of an avocado that weighs 0.45 lb if the exchange rate is 18 pesos to the dollar?

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Welcome back, everyone. A pound of Kiwis costs €1.24. In Germany determine the price of a kilogram of Kiwis in dollars if the exchange rate is $1.7 per euro. So our initial unit we're given is €1.24 per pound. and we're given an exchange rate of $1.07 per euro. If our final unit should be in us dollars per kilogram of Kiwis, we're going to need to use do geometry. So we're going to multiply by our first conversion factor to go from Euros in the denominator to $1.07 in the numerator as given from the prompt. And we can now cancel our unit of euros leaving us with dollars per pound. So we want our numerator dollars to remain, but we want our denominator to be from pounds to kg. And so we're going to multiply by our next conversion factor in which We should recall from our textbooks that £2.205 in our num meter is equivalent to one kg in our denominator. So now canceling out pounds, we're left with dollars per kilogram And in our calculators, this will simplify to a result of $2.93 divided by or per kilogram of Kiwi. And so our final answer will correspond to choice B in the multiple choice which states that the price of a kilogram of Kiwis in dollars is $2.93 per kilogram. So I hope this made sense and let us know if you have any questions.

In Mexico, avocados are 48 pesos per kilogram. What is the cost, in cents, of an avocado that weighs 0.45 lb if the exchange rate is 18 pesos to the dollar?

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Unit Conversion

Currency Exchange Rate

Cost Calculation