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To determine: The currency in which the cross-rates between two currency are stated
Introduction:
The price of a country’s currency that in terms of another nation’s currency is the exchange rate. The rate of exchange can be either floating or fixed. The two components of the exchange rates are the foreign currency and the domestic currency.
Explanation of Solution
The cross rate is the implicit rate between two countries. Thus, the implicit rate between two countries that generally refers to the non-country U’s currencies quoted in some other third country currency and it is usually Country U’s dollars.
Country U’s dollars are the general quoted currency between two countries’ currencies because it mainly decreases the number of possible cross-currency quotes.
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