56 cents
1.5 dozen = 18. The unit cost is misspecified and therefore ambiguous. At ten cents each, that would be 180 cents At ten cents for three, it would be 60 cents.
Each inch of wire cost 3 cents and so 24/3 = 8 inches of wire
2.05
An apple costs 2 cents more than an orange. 3a + 2o = 2a + 3o + 2 a = o + 2
12 = a dozen2 = $0.204 = $0.408 = $0.8012 = $1.20one dollar twenty cents
1.5 dozen = 18. The unit cost is misspecified and therefore ambiguous. At ten cents each, that would be 180 cents At ten cents for three, it would be 60 cents.
As is the value of a coin from 1797 The George Washington
44 cents
A gallon of milk in 1908 only would have cost 0.38 cents.
Each inch of wire cost 3 cents and so 24/3 = 8 inches of wire
At that moment in time, you still lived in the days of the three cent letter. It did not raise the postage rate on First Class Mail until 1 August 1958. The First Class postage rate had been set at three cents during WW1, but had been reduced to two cents on 1 July 1919 by the US Congress and was not advanced to three cents again until 6 July 1932.
The cost to mail a US postcard 6 inches by 4 1/2 inches is 32 cents as of Feb 2012.
It would have cost you 44 cents to mail your Christmas cards that year. And a postcard would have cost 28 cents.
45 cents
three dollars and fifty cents
In 1955 it would cost 3 cents to mail a letter. A post card would be 2 cents.
In 1955 it would cost 3 cents to mail a letter. A post card would be 2 cents.