Question

A minivan sells for 33,200 dollars. Give the price of the minivan in a) kilodollars and megadollars

Answer 1

The prefix of a unit could give you a hint on its extent with respect to the base unit. In this case, the base unit is money in terms of dollars. When you say kilodollars, that would be 1,000 times as large as a dollar. Hence,

33,200 dollars * 1 kilodollar/ 1,000 dollars =  33.2 kilodollars

When you say megadollars, that would be a million times as large as a dollar. Hence,

33,200 dollars * 1 megadollar/1,000,000 dollars = 0.0332 megadollars