Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781285189758
Author: Robert Brechner, George Bergeman
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 3.I, Problem 27RE
You are the assistant to the production manager for All American Industries. When you arrived at work, there was a message on your answering machine from an important client with a rush order. It stated the following:
Hi! This is Lee Perry from Precision Fabricators. We need sixteen, three and three-quarter-inch widgets with a gap of fifty-seven thousandths; twenty, four and three-eighth-inch widgets with a gap of two hundred forty-nine ten-thousandths of an inch; and twenty-five widget connectors with clamps that adjust from one and twenty-three hundredths inches to five and three hundred seventy- six thousandths. Please bill and ship the order to the usual address. Thanks.
a. Write this order in numerals for the production department to process.
All American Industries—Production Order
| Quantity | Description |
| _____________________________ | ___________________________ |
| _____________________________ | ___________________________ |
b. If widgets cost $4.80 per inch regardless of gap size and connectors cost $17.95 each, calculate the total cost of the order.
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