Question

if I have a bottling machine that fills 15 bottles of water every 6 seconds, what is my unit rate and what would be my slope on a graph?​

Answer 1

Please check the explanation.

Explanation:

We know that the unit rate is termed as the slope of the line.

We also know that the slope is normally represented by a fraction which may be expressed as a unit rate found at the point on the graph.

We are given that a bottling machine fills 15 bottles of water every 6 seconds.

• We want a unit rate where 1 is in the denominator.

Thus,

unit rate = 15 bottles / 6 seconds

= 2.5 bottles / 1 second

= 2.5 bottles per second

Thus,

The unit rate = 2.5 bottles per second

We know that the unit rate represents the slope of the line which is normally represented by a fraction or ratio.

Therefore,

Slope = 15 / 6

= 2.5