how many in a dozen?

Answer 1

12

Answer 2

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Dozen is another word for the number twelve. The dozen may be one of the earliest primitive groupings, perhaps because there are approximately a dozen cycles of the moon or months in a cycle of the sun or year. The dozen is convenient because its multiples and divisors are convenient: 12 = 2 × 2 × 3 = 3 × 4 = 2 × 6, 60 = 12 × 5, 360 = 12 × 30. The use of twelve as a base number, known as the duodecimal system (also as dozenal), probably originated in Mesopotamia (see also sexagesimal). Twelve dozen (122 = 144, the duodecimal 100) are known as a gross; and twelve gross (123 = 1,728, the duodecimal 1,000) are called a great gross, a term most often used when shipping or buying items in bulk. A great hundred, also known as a small gross, is 120 or ten dozen (a dozen for each finger on both hands). A baker's dozen, also known as a long dozen, is thirteen (one extra for the baker to taste-test).

The English word dozen [1] [2] [3] comes from the old form of the French word douzaine, meaning "a group of twelve" ("Assemblage de choses de même nature au nombre de douze" as defined in the eighth edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française). This French word [4] is a derivation from the cardinal number douze ("twelve", from Latin duodĕcim) and the collective suffix -aine (from Latin -ēna), a suffix also used to form other words with similar meanings such as quinzaine (a group of fifteen), vingtaine (a group of twenty), centaine (a group of one hundred), etc. These French words have synonymous cognates in Spanish: docena [5][6][7], quincena, veintena, centena, etc. English dozen, French douzaine and Spanish docena, are also used as indefinite quantifiers to mean "about twelve" or "many" (as in "a dozen times", "dozens of people").

Answer 3

There is 12 in a dozen - but then the original "bakers dozen " is believed to be 13!

Answer 4

The word dozen is another name for the number 12.
THe English word Dozen comes from the old French...Douzaine....A group of twelve
A Bakers Dozen is 13...This came about during the middle ages as bakers would give 13 items instead of 12 so as not to be called cheats and possibly lose their hand to the Axeman

Answer 5

12 in a dozen 13 in a bakers dozen

Answer 6

12

Answer 7

12

Answer 8

12

Answer 9

12

Answer 10

12 in a dozen but 13 in a baker's dozen (this is so that if 1 burns in the oven he still has a dozen left 2 sell)