Ratio, Rate, Unit Rate

Karen ate a dozen M & M's a day until the bag of 360 of them was done. How many M&Ms did she eat per day?

12 M&Ms per day

Mady read a 400 page book in a 5 days. How many pages did she read per day?

80 pages per day

Miss Wilson drove 260 miles every 4 hours until she arrived in Ohio. What is her average speed in miles per hour?

65 mph

The Lamborghini that Hector rented for the day costed him $35 every 30 minutes. What is the cost per hour?

$70 per hour

Lexie drank 64 oz of water in 4 hours until it was completely empty. At what rate did she drink her water per hour?

16 oz. per hour

Kenny ran 5 laps around the track in 550 seconds. What was his unit rate in minutes?

1.5 laps per minute

a comparison of two quantities (part to part, part to whole, whole to whole)

ratio

two ratios that name the same number

equivalent ratios

a ratio that compares two quantities measured in different units

rate

the rate for one unit of a given quantity

unit rate

a letter that stands for a number in an equation

variable

an equation stating that two ratios are equivalent

proportion

If you spent $96 in 4 hours what would it look like as a unit rate?

$24/ hour

If you spent $48 in 6 hours what would it look like as a unit rate?

8 dollars / hour

If you earned $105 in 7 hours what is your per hour pay rate?

15 dollars per hour

If you bought24 crickets for $3 how many crickets could you buy for $1?

8 cricket for $1

If you bought 6 peaches for $4.50 how much does each peach cost?

$0.75 per peach

If you sold 120 goldfish for the same price and you collected a total of $60, how much did each goldfish sell for?

$0.50 per goldfish

You planted 350 trees on 5 acres. You planted the same amount of trees on each acre. How many trees did you plant on each acre?

70 trees per acre

If your salary last week was $420 and you worked a total of 30 hours, how much is your hourly pay?

$14 per hour

If you bought 75 t-shirts for $225 at a swap-meet, how much did each t-shirt cost you?

$3 per shirt

If you traveled 120 miles on 8 gallons of gas, how many miles per gallon (mpg) does your car get?

15 mpg

You traveled a total of 508 miles in 4 days. You traveled the same amount of miles each day. How many miles did you travel each day?

127 miles per day

If you spent $25.75 on 5 cases of coke. What is the unit rate?

$5.15 per case

If you ran 4 laps around the track in 2 minutes. What is the unit rate?

2 laps/minute