A Jamaican music executive leaves Kingston for New York to promote a reggae concert tour. He exchanges 100,000 Jamaican dollars for American
dollars ($104 Jamaican = $1.00 US). After his stay in New York, he has to head to Tokyo (a reggae-crazy country) for another promotional tour. After arriving in Tokyo, he exchanges another 100,000 Jamaican dollars into yen (¥95 Japan=$1.00
US). Apply the following scenarios. Show your work for full credit!
a) How many U.S. dollars would the Jamaican executive get in the U.S.? Also if this music executive had not changed money in the U.S., but exchanged the entire 200,000 Jamaican dollars straight into yen, how many yen would he have gotten (crossrate)
b) How many U.S. dollars would the Jamaican executive get for his 100,000 Jamaican dollars if the Jamaican dollar strengthened to ($100.00 Jamaican = $1.00 US)? Now assuming the yen weakened (¥98=$1.00 US), how much would the executive get if he exchanged the entire
200,000 Jamaican dollars straight into yen (crossrate)?