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Shiloh can run of a mile in nine minutes. Express her speed as a unit rate, in miles per hour.

User Jewel Rana
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unit rate means that it is one
1 mile in 9 minutes
so in 1 minute how many miles (fractions of a mile) >?
take 1 divide by 9 = 0.11
and 1 divide 1 = 1
unit rate is 0.11 miles in one minute
or
0.11 miles : 1 minute

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I believe it’s 1.5 m/s
User JP Silvashy
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