Question
A 5-foot piece of brass wire costs $10.20. What is the price per inch?
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To find the price per inch of the brass wire, we first need to convert the length of the wire from feet to inches.
Since there are 12 inches in a foot, a 5-foot piece of wire can be converted to inches as follows:
\[
5 \text{ feet} \times 12 \text{ inches/foot} = 60 \text{ inches}
\]
Next, to find the price per inch, we divide the total cost of the wire by the total length in inches:
\[
\text{Price per inch} = \frac{\text{Total cost}}{\text{Total length in inches}} = \frac{10.20}{60}
\]
Now we perform the division:
\[
\frac{10.20}{60} = 0.17
\]
Therefore, the price per inch of the brass wire is:
\[
\boxed{0.17} \text{ dollars per inch}
\]
Since there are 12 inches in a foot, a 5-foot piece of wire can be converted to inches as follows:
\[
5 \text{ feet} \times 12 \text{ inches/foot} = 60 \text{ inches}
\]
Next, to find the price per inch, we divide the total cost of the wire by the total length in inches:
\[
\text{Price per inch} = \frac{\text{Total cost}}{\text{Total length in inches}} = \frac{10.20}{60}
\]
Now we perform the division:
\[
\frac{10.20}{60} = 0.17
\]
Therefore, the price per inch of the brass wire is:
\[
\boxed{0.17} \text{ dollars per inch}
\]