#Currency Converter in Python

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stable temple
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I’m not sure if I square root pesos soles and reais

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ionic flax
obtuse salmon
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What's the point of using sqrthere?

stable temple
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Idk

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Cheshire told me to so I been doing it

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I got my last answer using it

obtuse salmon
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Have you read the task on the left?

stable temple
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Yes

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I did everything correctly

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Besides one thing

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I square rooted but I don’t think I am supposed to because I got an different answer

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They got 89.6 and I got 5607.97

rough totem
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@stable temple Please use descriptive thread titles. Also, you don't need to create a new thread for every question you have

obtuse salmon
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Where does it mention square roots

rough totem
stable temple
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But I assumed it was square root because my last question was square root

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Which was this

obtuse salmon
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Can you like

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Actually read the exercise you're doing

stable temple
obtuse salmon
obtuse salmon
rough totem
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!format python

azure flaxBOT
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stable temple
rough totem
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Please use code blocks for small pieces of code, and screenshot the instructions

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Reading a photo of a screen is very difficult

obtuse salmon
stable temple
obtuse salmon
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You have X in currency Y
Make thing that asks the user how much he has
Google current exchange rate
Calculate value of shit currency in USD

stable temple
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Yeah not anymore that I broke it down

rough totem
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Currency Converter in Python

ionic flax
obtuse salmon
stable temple
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How do I google the exchange rates

obtuse salmon
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Serious question

stable temple
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Ik it’s not a dumb question to ask

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But 15

obtuse salmon
ionic flax
obtuse salmon
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hard work

stable temple
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So I type Colombian pesos exchange rate ?

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I’m confused

stable temple
obtuse salmon
ionic flax
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have you never used a search engine before?

obtuse salmon
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Idk why I am even in here still

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I'm really questioning reality right now

stable temple
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My bad, they don’t teach us about exchange rates in school, so I’m not sure how I would search it

obtuse salmon
stable temple
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Yes

ionic flax
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the same way you search for literally anything else on google. you put in the thing you want to know about

stable temple
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Found it

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$1 usd = 0.92 euro

obtuse salmon
stable temple
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Ik

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So 3,918.52 for each usd dollar

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Right ?

ionic flax
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well what does the website say

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we aren't going to do the reading or the thinking for you

stable temple
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I’m making sure I’m correct before I move on to the next step

obtuse salmon
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Fuck do I know about these shithole currencies 😭

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looks about right tho

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stable temple
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Okay thx

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So do I put 5600 in the peso currency box ?

ionic flax
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to do what?

stable temple
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Because back to the problem , it says what do you have left in pesos , and they say 5600

ionic flax
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I'm not able to read the problem, you've only pasted it as a small image

stable temple
ionic flax
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how would typing 5600 into google help you do that

stable temple
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I don’t know that’s why I’m asking for help😭

ionic flax
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think first

stable temple
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I did and that got me no where

ionic flax
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figure out what you need to do before you try to do it

obtuse salmon
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X * Y = Z
X = USD amount
Y = how many usd for each Z
Z = shit currency amount

ionic flax
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we will not be a wall for you to throw guesses at and see what sticks

obtuse salmon
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solve for X

stable temple
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so do i divide x by y?

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to get z

ionic flax
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jfc have you ever taken a math class

obtuse salmon
stable temple
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x=1.43

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y=5600

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(columbian pesos)

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wait

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y=3916

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my bad i didnt get it at first i get it now

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$1 for each 3917 in pesos

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and $1.43 for each 5600 pesos

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now that i got that what do i do next ? @obtuse salmon

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Nevermind I look slow now 🤦‍♂️ but I got the answer now I have to convert the foreign currency’s to usd dollar

obtuse salmon
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😎

stable temple
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But why did I get an error

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i entered 1.43 because thats what it is in usd

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but it didnt go through

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and i know im correct because i wrriten the problem down paper but im off by 3 but its because the currency value couldve changed since they made this website

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i got 86.26 on paper and they got 89.6

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but when i plug it in on computer i get error idk why

iron mortar
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you use float

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not int

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cause its an float not an int

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@stable temple

stable temple
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Okay Thankyou

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How would I put a float in , do I remove int ?

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@iron mortar

rough totem
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You will limit your learning if you're afraid to experiment yourself. You cannot always be asking people to hold your hand while you code

stable temple
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Okay thx for the advice , I’m going to try

iron mortar
stable temple
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Yes it worked

stable temple
rough totem
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That means you learnt something!

stable temple
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Yeah I had some notes written down earlier I just went back to it remembered float means a decimal number

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not the exact same answer but close enough!

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rough totem
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Wait what?

stable temple
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The currency value changed in usd since this website came out

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That’s why it’s not the same answer

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@rough totem

rough totem
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Your code doesnt even do the conversion tho

stable temple
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Wym , how not ?

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I did the conversion part on paper

rough totem
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?????

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Your program is supposed to do that

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Otherwise all you've done is created an addition calculator

stable temple
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It says google the exchange rate

rough totem
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😐

stable temple
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So what did I do wrong

rough totem
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Your program needs to do the conversion for the user

stable temple
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No it isn’t

iron mortar
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it is according to what u said

stable temple
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It says calculate the “total” in USD

rough totem
stable temple
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I might be wrong

rough totem
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You are wrong

stable temple
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But how would I do that

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I spent a hour doing a whole bunch of nothing 🤦‍♂️😭

iron mortar
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then you have to use fetch/requests from the current currency

stable temple
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What’s fetch request

rough totem
rough totem
iron mortar
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rate

rough totem
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But they don't need to do a request to any website or api

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It's supposed to be a simple beginner exercise

stable temple
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So I code , 5600 pesos=(int)1.43?

rough totem
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????

stable temple
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Wait not int

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My bad

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5600 pesos=(float) 1.43

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?

rough totem
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I wonder if you think things through

stable temple
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I do its I’m just overwhelmed by a lot of this stuff because this is kind of my first day trying to code myself

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Yesterday was just me taking notes

simple zenith
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If I have 10 pesos, how much do I have in USD?

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@stable temple

stable temple
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0.0026

simple zenith
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Can you calculate it in python?

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Like can you write the code to do it in python?

stable temple
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So you’re saying can I convert 10usd to pesos in python ?

simple zenith
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10 pesos to usd

stable temple
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Yeah , okay let me see

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Int(10 pesos)=float (0.0026 )

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?

simple zenith
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uh...no

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how did you calculate it in your head?

stable temple
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I didn’t calculate in my head , I used google

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It told me to

simple zenith
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How would you do it if I told you something is worth $10 and I have 5 of them. What's the total value that I have?

stable temple
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50

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10x5

simple zenith
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yes

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so you would do the same in python

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pesos are worth 0.00025 usd and I have 10 of them

stable temple
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0.0025?

simple zenith
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yes but how would you write the code in python to calculate it for you

stable temple
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10 *0.00025

simple zenith
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yup

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Now, what if I told you I have 15, 25, 67, 123? or an n number of pesos? where n is the input by the user. How would you calculate it?

stable temple
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N is the variable right ?

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n*

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I’m sorry I’m confused

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I don’t think codedex taught me how to do that yet

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@simple zenith

simple zenith
stable temple
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I don’t know how to calculate it , I might I just don’t understand in this method

simple zenith
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n * 0.00025

stable temple
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So what do I do with 15 , 35, 67 , 123?

simple zenith
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n is any number of pesos. it can be 15, 35, 67, 123 or whatever the user enters

stable temple
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Ohh

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The other numbers just threw me off my bad

simple zenith
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Do you get how to do it now?

stable temple
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No I’m confused still but I got the answer because I got frustrated and looked at the solution

total = pesos * 0.00025 + soles * 0.28 reais * 0.21

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But I don’t get where they got that from

simple zenith
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got what from?

stable temple
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The whole line

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I don’t know why I’m typing it in

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I’m confused

simple zenith
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Do you understand the problem?

stable temple
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Mostly

simple zenith
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what is it asking you to do?

stable temple
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It’s asking me to create a program that ask the user for the amount they have in pesos , soles , and reais and the calculated the total in usd

simple zenith
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yes so the numbers that you see in that line are the conversion rates

stable temple
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Ohhhh

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See I get it now , I just didn’t know why I was typing that in

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but i got the wrong answer

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Never mind

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Got it

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@simple zenith I have one last question

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Where did I get 0.00025 , 0.28 , 0.21 from ?

simple zenith
sleek tendon
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I didn't tell you to square root for this problem....
The last problem you did was to calculate hypotenuse using a formula which contained square root. You used square root because that's part of the formula to calculate the hypotenuse.
This problem is for currency conversion, which is a different problem.
You have to think about the problem you are trying to solve - don't just use square root because it solved the last problem - think about WHY you used it in the last problem. Think about what math is involved in THIS problem.