A skydiver falls 144 feet at 3 seconds. What is the unit rate?
1 Answer
May 19, 2016
48 feet per second
Explanation:
Write as
So we need to change the 3 into 1. We can do this by dividing it by 3. Using the rule: "what you do to the bottom you also do to the top" (this does not work for add or subtract).
Divide the top and bottom by 3
So feet per second