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A biker traveled 24 miles in 6 hours. A unit rate to describe this would be 4 miles per hour. What is another unit rate in this situation? 1 over 4 hour per mile 1 over 4 mile per hour 1 mile per hour 4 hours per mile

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1/4 hr mile!!!!!! Hope that this helps you! Have a good day
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Answer:

(1/4) hr/mile

Explanation:

4 mph can be rewritten using other units of measurement:

Suppose we convert 'miles' to 'feet:'

Then:

4 miles 5280 ft

---------- * ------------- = 21120 ft/hr

1 hr 1 mile

Note that we could invert 4 mph and obtain

1 hr

-------- or (1/4) hr/mile

4 mi

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