The average cost for a dozen eggs in the US in 1975 was about .75 cents.
The US average price to the farmer was 69.4 cents per dozen.
12 eggs= a dozen
24 eggs are the equivalent of two dozen eggs. A dozen is 12, while a baker's dozen is 13.
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.
I am reading my grandmother's diary from 1930. They had chickens and she sold her first dozen eggs for 30 cents, on December 4, 1930.
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.
In 1970 a dozen of fresh eggs cost only 62 cents. Therefore, six fresh eggs would have only cost 31 cents in 1970.
13 cents a dozen
a dozen eggs cost 20 cents in the 1970'
The cost of a dozen eggs in 1970 was 62 cents. The cost of a gallon of gas in 1970 was only 36 cents.
The average cost for a dozen eggs in the US in 1975 was about .75 cents.
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.
.99 cents a dozen
53 cents
About 20 cents.
39 cents