Exchange Rates & Best Buys (Edexcel GCSE Maths: Foundation): Exam Questions

Sean is the manager of a museum.

He buys a Chinese pot costing 1200 yuan.
The exchange rate is $1 = 6.4 yuan.

Work out the cost of this pot in dollars.

$ ................................................. 

Levante changes 24650 Hungarian forints to dollars.
The exchange rate is $1 = 290 forints.

Calculate how many dollars Levante receives.

$ ...................................................

Rashid changes 30 000 rupees to dollars when the exchange rate is $1 = 68.14 rupees.

How many dollars does he receive?

$ ................................................... 

A tourist changes $500 to euros (€) when the exchange rate is €1 = $1.0697.

Calculate how many euros he receives.

€ .................................. 

Complete this bill.

A shop sells bags of compost in three different sizes.

Work out which size of bag gives the best value.
Show how you decide.

Three jewellery shops in different cities sell the same designer watch.

The price of the watch from Esteem in Manchester is £850

The price of the watch from Voila! in Paris is €1090

The price of the watch from Starz in Houston is $1890

The exchange rates are

£1 = €1.28

€1 = $1.41

In which shop is the watch sold for the most expensive price?

You must show how you get your answer.

A chef buys some cheese from France.
200g of cheese costs 3.45 euros.
The exchange rate is $1 = 0.84 euros.

Work out the maximum mass of cheese the chef can buy with $150.
Give your answer in kilograms, correct to 1 decimal place.

............................................ kg 

A shop sells soft drink in 500 ml bottles and in 1 litre bottles.

Each 500 ml bottle costs 92p.
Each 1 litre bottle costs £1.70.

John is buying soft drink for an after-school club meeting. The club has no soft drink on hand to begin with.

The club has 8 members, and John assumes that each member will drink, on average, $\frac{2}{3}$ of a litre of soft drink.

Work out the smallest amount of money that John needs to spend on soft drink.
You must show all your working.

In fact, the members of the club each drink more than $\frac{2}{3}$ of a litre of soft drink on average.

Explain how this might affect the amount of money that the club needs to spend on soft drink for a meeting.

A ticket to a football match costs $20.

Calculate the cost of the ticket in rupees when the exchange rate is 1 rupee = $0.016 .

...................................... rupees 

Jamie buys a clock from Japan for 9395 yen.
The exchange rate is $1 = 110.27 yen.

Work out the cost of the clock in dollars, correct to the nearest cent.

$ ..............................................

Zach changes $575 into euros.
He spends 45% of the euros in France.
He changes the euros he does not use into pounds (£) to spend in England.

Work out how many pounds he receives.

£ ...................................................

On the internet, Pranay sees a grey jacket for 165 euros (€) and a blue jacket for $180.
These are the exchange rates.

$\begin{array}{rcl}€1& =& 76.05\mathrm{rupees}\\ 1\mathrm{rupee}& =& \$0.0152\end{array}$

Work out which jacket is the cheapest and by how many rupees.

The .................. jacket is cheapest by .................. rupees

Rangan buys 3.6 kg of potatoes and 2.8kg of leeks.
The total cost is $13.72.
Leeks cost $2.65 per kilogram.

Find the cost of 1 kg of potatoes.

$................................

Mr Razif travels by bus from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur with his wife and his four children.

Work out how much Mr Razif saves if he buys a family ticket and one child ticket rather than six individual tickets.

$ ............................ 

The bus leaves Singapore at 1240 and arrives in Kuala Lumpur at 1735.

Work out, in hours and minutes, the time this journey takes.

.................... h ...................min 

Mr Razif changes some dollars into Malaysian ringgits.
He receives 318 ringgits when the exchange rate is $\$1=4.24$ ringgits.

Work out how many dollars he changes.

$ ..............................