In mid-2006, a British pound sterling (the monetary unit in the United Kingdom) was worth 1.4 euros (the monetary unit in the European Union). If a U.S. dollar bought 0.55 pound sterling in 2006, what was the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the euro?

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