Question

Once a month, volunteers from the Green Sea Club clean up litter at the beach. Last month, the volunteers picked up 8 pounds of trash in 4 hours. This month, the same group of volunteers will spend 3 hours picking up trash.

Answer 1

The unit rate here is 2 pounds of trash in an hour. If two pounds of trash are picked up in an hour, we can multiply that by 3 and get that there will be 6 pounds picked up in 3 hours.