Caleb types 100 words in 5 minutes. What is the unit rate?
3 Answers
Unit rate=
Explanation:
We could work out the unit rate in 2 ways:
Per Minute or Per second.
First we will start of with per minute:
Rate=Word/minute
Per Second:
Find out how many seconds are in a minute (60) and multiply by the total minutes, getting the amount of seconds.
Rate=
Alternate way without using rate equations...
Explanation:
Since Caleb trypes 100 words in 5 mins we can say that:
Hence we can try and find
Going further we know:
So we can say:
To get 60 seconds, we divide each side by 60:
Explanation:
We have;