Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers 7th Edition by Robert Brechner ,George Bergeman

Exercise 113

­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 seventysix thousandths. Please bill and ship the order to the usual address. Thanks.
a. Write this order in numerals for the production department to process.

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.