Question

You are choosing a song for your dance recital. Song A has 11 beats in 10 seconds. Song B has 7 beats in 6 seconds. Which song has the greater rate?

Answer 1

By greater if you mean faster, then you are comparing the fractions 11/10 and 7/6. Finding a common denominator, which is thirty, we get the fractions 33/30 and 35/30. We can see that 35>33, making Song B faster.