Question

There are 80 red balloons and 20 green balloons each package of balloons. What is the unit rate in red balloons per green balloon?

4
20
40
80

Answer 1

4 is the answer because for every green balloon there are 4 red balloons

Answer 2

The unit rate of the red balloons per green balloons be 4 .

Explanation:

As given

There are 80 red balloons and 20 green balloons each package of balloons.

i.e 80 red balloons = 20 green balloons

Now find out the unit rate in red balloons per green balloon .

`Unit\ rate\ of\ red\ balloons\ per\ green\ balloons = (Number\ of\ red\ balloons)/(Number\ of\ green\ balloons)`

Putting the values in the above

`Unit\ rate\ of\ red\ balloons\ per\ green\ balloons = (80)/(20)`

Unit rate of the red balloons per green balloons = 4

Therefore the unit rate of the red balloons per green balloons be 4 .