Question

Your Boston-headquartered manufacturing company, Wruck Enterprises, obtained a 54-million-peso loan from a Mexico City bank last month to fund the expansion of your Monterrey, Mexico, plant. The exchange rate was 14 U.S. cents per peso when you took out the loan, but since then the exchange rate has dropped to 7 U.S. cents per peso. Has Wruck Enterprises made a gain or a loss due to the exchange rate change, and how much

Answer 1

Answer: 3.78 million dollars

Explanation:

Based on the information given in the question, the amount of money that Wruck Enterprises would pay when the exchange rate is 7 US cents per peso would be:

= 54-million × 7 cent

= 378,000,000 cent

= 3.78 million dollars

When the exchange rate was 14 U.S. cents per peso , the amount paid would have been:

= 54 million × 14 cent

= 756,000,000 cent

= 7.56 million dollars

Therefore, Wruck Enterprises made a gain of (7.56 million - 3.78 million) = 3.78 million dollars