Question

A contractor purchases 7 dozen pairs of padded work gloves for $103.32. He incorrectly calculates the unit price at $14.76 per pair for the expense report. What is the correct unit price? Why is the contractor's unit price incorrect?

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Answer 1

$1.23 per pair. His answer was incorrect because he tried finding the unit price by dividing 103.32 by 7, and he was wrong because it was 7 DOZEN, so you were supposed to divide by 84 instead of 7.

Explanation:

Answer 2

They didn’t multiply 7 by 12, making it seven dozen