Latanya made a 17-minute phone call from her hotel in France and was charged 17 euro. At the time, $1 was worth 0.82 euro. Find the cost per minute of the call in dollars?
1 Answer
Aug 7, 2018
$1.2 per minute
Explanation:
From the question, we can obtain the following:
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17-minute phone call costs 17 euro, which can be written as
#("17 euro")/("17 minute")# -
$1 was worth 0.82 euro. This can be written as:
#("$1")/("0.82 euro")#
In order to find out the cost per minute of the call in dollars, we can arrange the two relationships in a manner that will cancel out the euros, giving dollars per minute:
