Contemporary Mathematics for Business & Consumers 8th Edition by Robert Brechner,Geroge Bergeman

Exercise 14

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 seventy- six 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.