Question

You use a juice mix to make orange juice. You combine 12 ounces of the mix with 36 ounces of water. Which is a unit rate that describes your juice?

Answer 1

12 ounces of juice mix 1 ounce of juice mix
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36 ounces of water 3 ounces of water

For every ounce of juice mix, there are 3 ounces of water.

Hopefully, this answers your question.

Answer 2

The unit rate is: a mix of juice = 12/36 or 1/3 of water

Explanation:

A unit rate is commonly expressed as a fraction, in this case, the problem says that you combine 12 ounces of mix with 36 ounces of water.

So we can express this as 12/36 = 1/3

This means that you need 1/3 of water to know how many of the mix you need.

For example, if we now say that we need 50 ounces of water we multiply:

50* 1/3 = 16.66 ounces of mix.