Question

In a salsa recipe, the number of tomatoes added is proportional to the amount of salt added. This graph shows the relationship.

What is the unit rate for the number of tomatoes to the tsp of salt?

Answer 1

y=3x, y being the number of tomato and x, the number of tbs, then:

1 tbs correspond to 3 tomatoes

Answer 2

The unit rate for the number of tomatoes to the tsp of salt is 3.

Explanation:

Consider the provided graph.

The equation of the line is
`y=3x`

A unit rate is a rate with 1 in the denominator.

Here, the meaning of unit rate is how much tomatoes to the tsp of salt.

As we know the slope intercept form is:

`y = mx + b`

Where, m is the slope of the line or rate and b is y intercept.

By the comparison we can say that the slope of the line is 3. Here, the denominator is 1.

This shows that 3 tomatoes are added for each teaspoon of salt.

Hence, the unit rate is 3.