Blossom Company bottles and distributes B-Lite, a diet soft drink. The beverage is sold for 50 cents per 16-ounce bottle to retailers, who charge customers 75 cents per bottle. For the year 2022, management estimates the following revenues and costs.

Sales		$ 1,850,000		Selling expensesvariable		$ 111,000
Direct materials		460,000		Selling expensesfixed		54,000
Direct labor		340,000		Administrative expensesvariable		24,000
Manufacturing overheadvariable		360,000		Administrative expensesfixed		102,250
Manufacturing overheadfixed		260,000

Calculate variable cost per bottle. (Round variable cost per bottle to 3 decimal places, e.g. 0.251.)

Variable cost per bottle

$ enter Variable cost per bottle in dollars rounded to 3 decimal places