Question

You are in London, and you want to buy some peaches for lunch. The sign in the fruit stand indicates that peaches are 3.5 pounds (£) per kilogram. Given that there are approximately 1.52 US dollars ($) to the British pound (£), calculate what a pound of peaches will cost in US dollars. Show your work.

Answer 1

Here we have given that,

peaches are 3.5 pounds (£) per kilogram

Given that,

1.52 US dollars ($) = 1 British pound (£),

So to calculate what a pound of peaches will cost in US dollars.

We have to go through the unit conversion formula so that,

1 pound = 0.453592 kg

And

1kg = 2.20462 pound

Therefore 2.20462 pound of peaches will cost 3.5 pounds

1 pound of peaches = 3.5/2.2 = 1.5875 pounds

And 1 pounds = 1.52 dollars so that,

1 pound of peaches will cost = 2.41311 dollars.

Hence ,

A pound of peaches will cost 2.4131$ in US dollars