A worker at Robix paid under a straight piecework rate made $12.75 an hour this week. If each unit took the employee twelve minutes to produce, the piece rate is __________ per unit.
A)$1.95
B)$2.55
C)$2.95
D)$3.15

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To find out the piece rate, we need to first convert the employee's hourly wage into a minute rate:
$12.75 per hour = $12.75 / 60 minutes = $0.2125 per minute

Then, we can use the time it takes to produce each unit to calculate the piece rate:
1 unit / 12 minutes = 0.0833 units per minute

Finally, we can divide the minute rate by the units per minute to find the piece rate:
$0.2125 per minute / 0.0833 units per minute ≈ $2.55 per unit

A Worker at Robix Paid Under a Straight Piecework Rate