Question

Steve drove at a constant rate to the beach for a vacation. In the equation below, t is the time in hours it took Steve to drive to the beach.

75t = 300

What is the unit rate in the equation above?

Answer 1

First, we need to solve for t.

Inverse operation of multiplication (75*t) is division. Thus, we need to divide each side of our equation by 75 to solve for t.

75t/75= 300/75

The two 75's cross out.

t=300/75

Now we divide to solve for t.

300/75=4
t=4

Thus, t equals 4.

Our unit per hour is 4.

Our unit rate: 75