SOLUTION: If print wheels sell for $6.50 each or $ 60.00 per dozen, how much is saved by buying a dozen?

SOLUTION: If print wheels sell for $6.50 each or $ 60.00 per dozen, how much is saved by buying a dozen?

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Question 1089709: If print wheels sell for $6.50 each or $ 60.00 per dozen, how much is saved by buying a dozen?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

"print wheels sell for $6.50 each"
If you buy 12 of them at this unit price, then you pay 12*6.50 = 78 dollars.

Compare this to $60 if you buy them by the dozen

You save 78 - 60 = 18 dollars if you purchase by the dozen.

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