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3 years ago

Why do you think rates are usually written as unit rates?

Mathematics

2 answers:

stellarik [79]3 years ago

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Coooooooooooooooooooooool

Elden [556K]3 years ago

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It's so you can compare two rates

For example,
person A walks 10 miles in 2 hours
person B walks 40 miles in 4 hours

If you want to know who is the faster walker, then you divide the distance over the time
person A's speed = distance/time = 10/2 = 5 miles per hour
person B's speed = distance/time = 40/4 = 10 miles per hour

So we can see that person B is faster as 10 is larger than 5. This is only possible by comparing the unit rates of 5 mph (for person A) and 10 mph (for person B)

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39.1 = (3/10) x - 5 3/4

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