Question

Error Analysis A contractor purchases 4 dozen pairs of padded work gloves for $54.24. She

Answer 1

Answer:

the unit rate for each pair is $1.13

Step-by-step explanation:

Okay this is how you would do this problem correctly:

we know that 4 dozen pairs of gloves cost $54.24 however we want to know what the cost is for one pair so we have to make a equation by dividing total cost by the number of glove pairs.

$54.24/4 dozen

the reason we are putting 4 dozen instead of just dividing $54.24 by 4 is because we want to know the unit price for each pair of gloves so it would actually look like this:

$54.24/4(12)

Dozen = 12

so we multiply 12 by 4 to get 48 pairs of gloves, we then divide $54.24 by 48 to find our unit rate of pricing for each pair:

$54.24/48 = 1.13

so now we place a dollar sign in front of 1.13 to get your answer:

for every pair bought it costs $1.13

So how did the Analysis A contractor get the wrong answer? well when she had bought the 4 dozen gloves she divided $54.24 by 4, which in this case would make it seem as though the gloves came in a 12 pack of gloves. However she was buying the gloves individually so she would have to multiply 4 by 12 before dividing the total number of gloves from $54.24.