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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: seahorse513 on July 18, 2011, 06:22:57 PM

Title: you are smart
Post by: seahorse513 on July 18, 2011, 06:22:57 PM
To be honest I am not good at word problems....

I am trying to convert US gas prices to GB petrol prices....

L1.40 bps per liter versus ~$3.71
conversion rate $1.60 to L1bps

How do I figure this out?? thanx Tania
Title: Re: you are smart
Post by: formerlurker on July 18, 2011, 06:27:11 PM
http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Money conversion calculator.
Title: Re: you are smart
Post by: Celtic Rose on July 18, 2011, 06:35:39 PM
First, figure out the number of liters in a gallon:  1 gallon is 3.79 Liters

Then figure out the price per gallon in British pounds.  Approximately 5.31 pounds for a gallon of gas

Then convert pounds to dollars: Currently 1 pounds is about $1.60, so it ends up being about $8.50 for a gallon of gas in Britain.
Title: Re: you are smart
Post by: seahorse513 on July 18, 2011, 06:59:41 PM
it's L5.60 to the gallon so i multiply that by .62?
Title: Re: you are smart
Post by: seahorse513 on July 18, 2011, 07:01:26 PM
First, figure out the number of liters in a gallon:  1 gallon is 3.79 Liters

Then figure out the price per gallon in British pounds.  Approximately 5.31 pounds for a gallon of gas

Then convert pounds to dollars: Currently 1 pounds is about $1.60, so it ends up being about $8.50 for a gallon of gas in Britain.

omg!! I think this is where we stop whining about our gas prices!!
Title: Re: you are smart
Post by: JohnnyReb on July 18, 2011, 07:09:34 PM
omg!! I think this is where we stop whining about our gas prices!!

You should be as old as me. I can remember when farm use gas 11.9 cent a gallon and diesel fuel was a 10.9 cent a gallon.
...and once while daddy ran a country store in 1957 we were selling highway use gas for 12.9 cent a gallon.

Oh sing it Archie Bunker, "Those were the days....."