The last Harry Potter book went on sale at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007. The publisher Scholastic reported the next day that it broke all records,              ... selling an unprecedented 8.3 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in its first 24 hours on sale.   In Harry Potter’s wizard world, currency is measured in galleons, sickles and knuts, where 1 galleon = 17 sickles, 1 sickle = 29 knuts.   Scholastic Books, the publisher of the Harry Potter series in the United States, has issued paperback copies of books that (they claim) Harry Potter used at Hogwarts. The price is listed as $5.99 US (14 Sickles 3 Knuts). 1.Use this information to figure out the number of dollars per galleon.   2.  The list price of the hardback version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was $34.99. Convert this price to galleons.

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The last Harry Potter book went on sale at 12:01 a.m. on July 21, 2007. The publisher Scholastic reported the next day that it broke all records,

             ... selling an unprecedented 8.3 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in its first 24 hours on sale.

 

In Harry Potter’s wizard world, currency is measured in galleons, sickles and knuts, where

1 galleon = 17 sickles, 1 sickle = 29 knuts.

 

Scholastic Books, the publisher of the Harry Potter series in the United States, has issued paperback copies of books that (they claim) Harry Potter used at Hogwarts. The price is listed as $5.99 US (14 Sickles 3 Knuts).

1.Use this information to figure out the number of dollars per galleon.

 

2. 

The list price of the hardback version of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was $34.99. Convert this price to galleons.

 

 

 

 

 

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