Question

Can someone please help me with these work rate questions!

Answer 1

Answer:

1/8 rooms per hour

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that Beatrice can wallpaper 1 room in 8 hours. The work rate is how many rooms Beatrice can wallpaper in one unit of time (in this case, one hour).

Another way of saying 1 room in 8 hours is 1 room/8 hours. We want to find the rate over one hour, so we want to make the denominator ( in hours) equal to 0.

With fractions, we can divide/multiply both the numerator and denominator by the same amount, and still keep the fraction. Therefore, we want to make 8 hours 1 hour by multiplication or division. Since anything divided by itself is equal to 1, we can say that 8/8 is equal to 1. Therefore, we can divide both the numerator and denominator by 8 to get

(1 room/8) = (8 hours / 8)

= (1/8 rooms) / 1 hour

Therefore, the work rate is 1/8 rooms per hour