Error Analysis A contractor purchases 4 dozen pairs of padded work gloves for $54.24. She incorrectly calculates the unit price as $13.56 per pair for the expense report. What is the correct
unit price? What is the error?
The correct unit price is $
per pair.

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

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.    

there are 70 more legs than eyes at the dog show (196 – 126 = 70). dogs have two more legs than eyes, and humans have the same number of legs as eyes. thus 70 is twice the number of dogs at the show, so the number of dogs is half of 70, which is 35. to get the number of humans, subtract 35 from 63: 63 – 35 = 28.

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