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Molly reads 75 pages of the latest thriller mystery novel in 45 minutes what is the unit rate at the same rate how long we it take here to read the eniter 425 page novel

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Answer: 1 2/3 ; 255 minutes

Molly read 75 pages in 45 minutes. If we divided 75 into 45, we can figure out how many pages she read in 1 minutes. 75/ 45 is 1.66666667.

1.66666667 as a fraction is 1 and 2/3. This means in 1 minute Molly will read 1 page and 2/3rd's of a page. To figure out how long it will take for her to read 425, we can divide that into 1 2/3.

425/ 1.67 is 254.491018. That round to 254 minutes and 29 seconds. This is almost 255 minutes.

This means our unit rate is 1 2/3 and it will take 255 minutes to read the entire novel. To check we can divided 425 into 255 minutes-->

425/255 is 1.66666667, which once again equals 1 2/3

I hope this helped & Good Luck <3 !!

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