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Explain how to find the unit rate from the word problem.

Joe went to the store and bought 3 pieces of candy for $0.75. What is the unit rate?

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It is 4 because when you divide 3 by 0.75, you would get 4
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What you would do is divide the 3 pieces of candy by $0.75 and that should give you $0.25 which is the unit rate , because each piece of candy is $0.25 that is how much it is for one . When finding the unit rate you are finding how much something is for the price of on
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