You read in an article that gas costs 14964 yens per liter i

You read in an article that gas costs 149.64 yens per liter in Japan. So that you can compare this price to prices in the US. Convert this to dollars per gallon. $1 US=119.33 yen and 1 gallon= 3.98 L------------------per Gallon.

Solution

Converting,

(149.64 Y/L)*(1 $/119.33 Y)*(3.98 L/1 gal)

= $4.990926004 per/gallon [ANSWER]