{"id":245876,"date":"2025-07-06T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=245876"},"modified":"2025-07-06T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T14:19:59","slug":"16-exam-if-pencils-cost-2-40-for-twelve-what-is-the-unit-price-per","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/06\/16-exam-if-pencils-cost-2-40-for-twelve-what-is-the-unit-price-per\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a016 Exam If pencils cost $2.40 for twelve, What is the unit price per"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-236.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245877\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of 12 pencils is $2.40, and we need to find the price per pencil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find the unit price, we divide the total cost by the number of pencils. This calculation is:Unit&nbsp;Price=Total&nbsp;CostNumber&nbsp;of&nbsp;Pencils=2.4012=0.20\\text{Unit Price} = \\frac{\\text{Total Cost}}{\\text{Number of Pencils}} = \\frac{2.40}{12} = 0.20Unit&nbsp;Price=Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;PencilsTotal&nbsp;Cost\u200b=122.40\u200b=0.20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the unit price per pencil is <strong>$0.20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is <strong>A. $0.20<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explanation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The total price for 12 pencils is $2.40.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To find the price of one pencil (unit price), divide the total price by the number of pencils: 2.4012=0.20\\frac{2.40}{12} = 0.20122.40\u200b=0.20<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This means each pencil costs $0.20.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This method of dividing the total cost by the number of items is commonly used when calculating unit prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner5-737.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245878\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The cost of 12 pencils is $2.40, and we need to find the price per pencil. To find the unit price, we divide the total cost by the number of pencils. This calculation is:Unit&nbsp;Price=Total&nbsp;CostNumber&nbsp;of&nbsp;Pencils=2.4012=0.20\\text{Unit Price} = \\frac{\\text{Total Cost}}{\\text{Number of Pencils}} = \\frac{2.40}{12} = 0.20Unit&nbsp;Price=Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;PencilsTotal&nbsp;Cost\u200b=122.40\u200b=0.20 Thus, the unit price per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}