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FX rates

In June 2005, a Big Mac sold for 6,000 pesos in Colombia and $3.00 in the United States. The exchange rate in June 2005 was 2,300 pesos per dollar. So, on Big Mac purchasing power parity grounds the Colombian peso was

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