Refer to the World View below: WORLD VIEW Zimbabwe's Trillion-Dollar Currency Imagine the price of coffee doubling every day. Or the price of a textbook soaring from $100 to $12,800 in a single week! Sounds unbelievable. But that was the day-to-day reality in Zimbabwe in 2008-2009, when the inflation rate reached an astronomical 231 million percent. The Zimbabwean currency lost so much value that people needed a sackful to buy a loaf of bread. To facilitate commerce, the Zimbabwe central bank printed the world's first $100 trillion banknote. Within a week, that $100 trillion note was worth about 33 U.S. dollars-enough to buy six loaves of bread. Source: News reports, January 2009. Instructions: Round your responses to two decimal places. What was the price of a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe, measured in a. U.S. dollars? $ b. Zimbabwe dollars? $ trillion

Refer to the World View below: WORLD VIEW Zimbabwe's Trillion-Dollar Currency Imagine the price of coffee doubling every day. Or the price of a textbook soaring from $100 to $12,800 in a single week! Sounds unbelievable. But that was the day-to-day reality in Zimbabwe in 2008-2009, when the inflation rate reached an astronomical 231 million percent. The Zimbabwean currency lost so much value that people needed a sackful to buy a loaf of bread. To facilitate commerce, the Zimbabwe central bank printed the world's first $100 trillion banknote. Within a week, that $100 trillion note was worth about 33 U.S. dollars-enough to buy six loaves of bread. Source: News reports, January 2009. Instructions: Round your responses to two decimal places. What was the price of a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe, measured in a. U.S. dollars? $ b. Zimbabwe dollars? $ trillion

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