Question

Knox can color 1/5 of a page of his coloring book in 1/3 of an hour. Express this as a unit rate.

Answer 1

The unit rate is 0.6 pages is colored per hour

Solution:

Given that, we have to find the unit rate

A unit rate describes how many units of the first type of quantity corresponds to one unit of the second type of quantity.

Knox can color 1/5 of a page of his coloring book in 1/3 of an hour

Thus, the unit rate is pages per hour

Therefore,

`(1)/(5) \text{ page } = (1)/(3) \text{ hour }`

We have to find the pages colored in 1 hour

`(pages)/(hour) = ((1)/(5))/((1)/(3))\\\\(pages)/(hour) = (1)/(5) * (3)/(1)\\\\(pages)/(hour) = 0.6`

Thus, 0.6 pages is colored per hour