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What is per unit price?
The per unit price is the price of an item per each unit that is purchased or sold. This is the same as the unit price, but worded in a different way.
How do I calculate the unit price?
You can calculate the unit price using the unit price formula. Divide the item's total price by the number of units of the item:
unit price = total price / no. of units.
How do I calculate unit price for multi-item packages?
For a package with multiple items, the unit price formula reads:
unit price = total price / no. of items.
For example, you can compare a dozen eggs for $2.99 and an 18-egg package for $3.50 if you use the unit price calculator in Items mode. The calculator quickly determines that an 18-egg package is cheaper by $0.05/egg.
Doesn't need to be per 100ml of course, could be any percentage of whatever unit you want, but the question remains the same.
Basically, there's a deal going on at a shop that I shop at. You can get 3x1.25l bottles of juice for 3, or I can forgo the deal and get 1x2l bottle for 1.45
Obviously, the 1x2l bottle is the better deal but I don't always know this for sure. I want to make a spreadsheet where I input the volume of the thing, the quantity of the thing, the total volume I'd get, and the total price I pay, and then it gives me price per 100ml.
In my spreadsheet, I've got
1 litre is equal to 1000 millilitres Volume-for-one-item which we'll call A = 1.25l Quantity-of-item which we'll call B = 3 Total-Quantity which is just AB = 3.75 All super easy stuff
100ml is just 0.1 so I'll just use that because it's easy and can x 100 later if I want.
I need to multiply AB by some number and that is equal to 0.1. So If I divide AB by 0.1 then I get that special number which in this case is 37.5
So now, I can divide the total price by that number to get the price per 100ml and if I do that I get... 0.08?
Is that right? Am I doing it right?
Can anyone please suggest a useful app/website or hack for working out cost of perfume per mls? My mum brain has forgotten how to math 🥴