You are the assistant to the production manager for all american industries. when you arrived at work, there was a message on your answering machine from an important client with a rush order. it stated the following:
hi! this is lee perry from precision fabricators. we need eighteen, three and three-quarter-inch wedgebands with a gap of fifty-nine thousandths; twenty-two, four and three-eighth-inch wedgebands with a gap of two hundred forty-three ten-thousandths of an inch; and twenty-six wedgeband connectors with clamps that adjust from one and twenty-three hundredths inches to five and three hundred seventy-four thousandths. bill and ship the order to the usual address.
(a)
write this order in numerals for the production department to process.
all american industries—production order
quantity description

3
3
4
"
wedgeband— " gap

4
3
8
"
wedgeband— " gap
connectors with clamps—1.23"– "
(b)
comparing the
3
3
4
"
wedgeband and the
4
3
8
"
wedgeband, which has the smaller gap?

3
3
4
" wedgeband

4
3
8
" wedgeband