Question

How much is a baker's dozen?
a. 12
b. 13
c. 10

Answer 1

How much is a baker's dozen?
a. 12
b. 13✔️✔️✔️
c. 10

✌️Correct answer is ✌️

✔️✔️Option b. ✔️✔️


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⚫Extra info ⚫

⏩meaning of often considered baker's Dozen as 12 but Baker's dozen is different.


⏩ Normally 1 dozen = 12 items


⏩A baker's dozen, also known as a big or long dozen, is 13.


⏩ Baker's Dozen is referred to as a group of 13.


⏩In early England vegazva often caught and punished for selling breads in higher price than its weight.


⏩from the former practice of bakers adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch of twelve loaves in order to avoid punishment for accidentally selling underweight bread.

Answer 2

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=> 13

Question : How much is a baker's dozen?

=> b. 13

Usually, One dozen includes 12.

But A baker's dozen includes 13. A new law was implemented by English king.

It includes 13 loaves in order to get avoided from being cheated by giving less quantity.

Also, any baker who supplied less quantity to any customer was in for punishment.

Hence,

A baker's dozen is 13.

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