yes! every one does because you can only buy the dozen
Rather than ask the cost, it is more meaningful to ask "Wow long did a person have to work to earn enough to buy a dozen eggs?".In the early 1940 the average pay was less than 50 cents an hour. Eggs were about 49 cents/dozen. his means you'd have to work an hour to buy a dozen eggs. In America in 2017 minimum wage is about 8$/hr and eggs about 3$/dozen. You have to work half an hour to buy a dozen eggs.
Six dozen because 1.60 goes into 9.60 six times
a dozen eggs
A dozen means twelve and so a dozen eggs is twelve eggs. Usually eggs are sold in cartons and these contain a specific number which will be either a half-dozen (which is six eggs), a dozen (that is, twelve eggs), or the number can be specified, say nine eggs, or maybe even fifteen or eighteen eggs. If you want a greater quantity of eggs you might buy a tray, which will be thirty eggs. For some reason, eggs are usually sold in multiples of three.
Well, honey, in 1948, a dozen eggs would have set you back about 70 cents. Can you believe it? Nowadays, you'd be lucky to find a dozen eggs for less than two bucks. Ah, the good old days when you could buy a dozen eggs without taking out a second mortgage.
12 eggs= a dozen
Probally about 0.69 cents a dozen.
24 eggs are the equivalent of two dozen eggs. A dozen is 12, while a baker's dozen is 13.
There are 216,000 eggs in 18,000 dozen. 12 eggs in a dozen * 18,000 = 216,000
Twelve dozen eggs is equal to 144 eggs (since 1 dozen is 12). Half of 144 is 72. In fraction form, half of 12 dozen eggs can be expressed as ( \frac{1}{2} \times 12 ) dozen, which simplifies to 6 dozen eggs. Therefore, half of 12 dozen eggs is 6 dozen, or 72 eggs.
one quarter of a dozen eggs is three eggs.
$45, but i don't think you can buy 6 and half eggs, but you do you