Proportions in Scale Drawings - Item 20235 Question 5 of 7 On a trip, you had to change your money from dollars to British pounds. You got 560560 pounds for 800800 dollars. How many pounds will you get for 300 dollars?

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Answer 1 · 2018-01-27T14:12:52

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This is a question of direct proportion.

Let the pounds you get be a.

So you can simply take the ratio,

#560560 : 800800 = a : 300#

#-> 560560/800800 = a/300 #

#-> 560560/800800 *300 = a#

After canceling you get

a =  210 pounds