Question

Olive can read 5 pages of her book in 20 minutes. At what unit rate is olive reading?

Answer 1

1/4 page per minute

Explanation:

To find the unit rate, we need the amount of page she read in 1 minutes. To do this we divide the pages by the minutes. Let x equal the pages she reads per minutes.

5/20=x

we can simplify the fraction by divide both the numerator and denominator by 5

(5/5)/(20/5)=x

Do the division

1/4=x

Olive reads 1/4 page per minute