Question

1) You visited Switzerland over summer and brought back 3,722.25 swiss francs to the United States. How many U.S. dollars will you get if you exchange your swiss francs for U.S. dollars? The exchange rate is 1 U.S dollar = 1.0147 swiss francs.

Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points. Do not enter $ or comma in the answer box. For example, if your answer is $12.345 then enter as 12.35 in the answer box.

2) Suppose the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and Swiss francs is SF 1.224 = $1.00, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro is $1.00 = 1.1651 euros. What is the cross-rate of Swiss francs to euros (SF/Euro)?

Enter your answer rounded off to FOUR decimal points.

3) ABC Company sells 2,412 chairs a year at an average price per chair of $182. The carrying cost per unit is $22.78. The company orders 344 chairs at a time and has a fixed order cost of $113.3 per order. The chairs are sold out before they are restocked. What are the total shortage costs?

Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points. Do not enter comma or $ in the answer box. For example, if your answer is 12.345 then enter as 12.35 in the answer box.

Answer 1

1) You visited Switzerland over summer and brought back 3,722.25 swiss francs to the United States. How many U.S. dollars will you get if you exchange your swiss francs for U.S. dollars? The exchange rate is 1 U.S dollar = 1.0147 swiss francs.

Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points. Do not enter $ or comma in the answer box. For example, if your answer is $12.345 then enter as 12.35 in the answer box.

Answer:Total Swiss Francs = 3,722.25

1 USD = 1.0147 Swiss Francs

or 1 swiss Francs = 1/1.0147 USD

3,722.25 Swiss Francs = (1/1.0147) * 3,722.25 = 3668.325613 USD or $3,668.33

2) Suppose the exchange rate between U.S. dollars and Swiss francs is SF 1.224 = $1.00, and the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro is $1.00 = 1.1651 euros. What is the cross-rate of Swiss francs to euros (SF/Euro)?

Enter your answer rounded off to FOUR decimal points.

Answer: SF 1.224 = $1.00 also written as USD/SF = 1.224

SF/Euro = 1/1.224 = 0.816993

$1 = 1.1651 Euros also written as USD/Euro = 1.1651

Cross rate between SF/Euro is:

SF/Euro = 1/(USD/SF) * USD/Eur

Or

SF/Euro = SF/USD * USD/Euro = 0.816993 * 1.1651 = 0.951879

or

SF/Euro = 0.9519

3) ABC Company sells 2,412 chairs a year at an average price per chair of $182. The carrying cost per unit is $22.78. The company orders 344 chairs at a time and has a fixed order cost of $113.3 per order. The chairs are sold out before they are restocked. What are the total shortage costs?

Enter your answer rounded off to two decimal points. Do not enter comma or $ in the answer box. For example, if your answer is 12.345 then enter as 12.35 in the answer box.

Average price per chair = $182

Total shortage cost = Average price per chair * number of chairs ordered/total average sales per year = 182 * 344 / 2412 = $25.96 (Answer)