Question

a team of painters is painting all the homes in the neighborhood. so far they have painted 3/4 of a house in 4 days. At what rate are they painting?

Answer 1

Answer:

$\frac{3}{16}$ of a house per day

Step-by-step explanation:

A rate is simply the measure of of one quantity against another quantity.

Here, we are simply to measure the number of houses the team of painters can paint against the number of days they spend painting them.

Simply put, we need to find the number of houses they can paint in a day.

To do this, all we have to do is divide the number of houses painted by the number of days they spent painting them.

They painted 3/4 of a house in 4 days. Therefore, the rate will be:

$R = \frac{\frac{3}{4} }{4} \\\\\\R = \frac{3}{4 * 4}$

$R = \frac{3}{16}$ of a house per day.

They are painting at a rate of $\frac{3}{16}$ of a house per day.