Question

Write an equivalent unit rate to eating chips in 1/4 mins

Answer 1

Here we have the case where:

"one chip is eaten in 1/4 mins."

(that means unit rate, the amount of a given variable that we need to do a unit of another variable)

Then the unit rate would be:

4 chips per minute.

Or, in a more mathematical way to write this:

4 chips/min.

Now we could write this in other units, for example.

We know that 1 min = 60s.

Then we have that (1/4) min = 60s/4 = 15s.

Then we have the unit rate:

1 chip every 15 seconds, or:

(1/15) chips/second.

Now, the variable in this case is time, t = time, let's multiply bot our unit rates by the same amount of time, and see if we have the same outcome.

Let's use t = 2 min.

1) (4chips/min)*2min = 8 chips.

2) ((1/15) chips/second)*2min

First, 2 min = 120 seconds.

((1/15) chips/second)*2min = ((1/15) chips/second)*120seconds = 8 chips.

So both unit rates are equivalent.