Question

How do you find the unit rate of Three medium apples have about 285 calories?

Answer 1

Divide the total amount by the number of units.

Explanation:

A “unit rate” is the average rate for a single unit. This is found by dividing the total amount of an item by the number of units in the group.

In this case we have the ratio of `(3/285)` `("Apples")/("calories")`.
We want to know the calories per unit (apple), so we invert this to `(285/3) ("calories")/("Apples")`, which when reduced by performing the indicated division is `95 ("calories")/("Apple")`