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Can someone help with this please i dont understand

Can someone help with this please i dont understand-example-1
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Answer:

all unit costs are $24.50 per cubic yard

Explanation:

A "unit" is one of something. A "unit cost" is the cost of one of something. Sometimes, you are told what a unit is; sometimes you have to figure out a reasonable unit.

Here, we have cost in dollars and material volume in units of cubic yards. It is reasonable to assume the unit of interest is 1 cubic yard.

It should not be a mystery that the cost of 1 cubic yard will be 1/8 the cost of 8 cubic yards. That is, you find the unit cost by dividing the cost by the number of units:

A. ($196)/(8 yd³) = $24.50/yd³

B. ($490)/(20 yd³) = $24.50/yd³

C. ($637)/(26 yd³) = $24.50/yd³

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