Question

1. One dozen means how many items?
2. One gross means how many items?​

Answer 1

Answer:

one dozen = 12 items

one gross = 144 pieces

Answer 2

Answer:

1. One dozen:

• One dozen means a collection or a set of 12 items of the same thing, like 12 screws or 12 apples.
• A dozen is a unit of measurement.
• In primitive days, dozen was used to group a set of twelve items, which is still followed.
• The number 12 was fixed following the number of months in a year or a solar cycle or the 12 cycles of the moon.

2. One gross:

• One gross means a collection of a dozen of dozen things, or a square of a dozen, or simply 144 items of the same thing.
• The word ‘gross’ refers to numbers that are multiples of exponents of twelve.
• Gross is also further classified as great gross (a group of 1728 items) and small gross (120 items).