Re: Target unit pricing - Here's the real point

"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:06:58 GMT from Lou <lpogoda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> > By the way, I don't see the logic of multiplying by 16. The stuff
> > priced priced per ounce was in fluid ounces, a measure of volume,
> > not one-sixteenth of a pound, a measure of weight.
>
> Now that you have corrected the information you gave earlier, I agree
> with you.
>
> But before you said "ounces", not "fluid ounces", and outside of the
> precious-metals markey there are 16 ounces in a pound.

There are also 32 ounces in a quart, and those ounces have nothing to do
with weight.  Since the stuff being priced was a liquid, I'd think fluid
ounces would be presumed.  Which simply added insult to injury when unit
pricing the pump-sprayer container by the pound.