SOLUTION: A college student is considering a subscription to a social networking Internet site that advertises its cost as "only 87 cents per day." What is the cost of membership in dollars

Question 777475: A college student is considering a subscription to a social networking Internet site that advertises its cost as "only 87 cents per day." What is the cost of membership in dollars per year?
How many conversion factors will you need to use to solve the problem?
How do you choose the appropiate conversion factors?

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A college student is considering a subscription to a social networking Internet site that advertises its cost as "only 87 cents per day." What is the cost of membership in dollars per year?
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87(cents/day)*(365/1)(days/year)*(1/100)(dollars/cent)
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= (87*365*1)/(1*1*100)(dollars/year)
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= 317.77 dollars/year
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How many conversion factors will you need to use to solve the problem?
Ans: 2
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How do you choose the appropiate conversion factors?
Change cents to dollars
Change days to years
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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