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Why is “3 meals a day” a unit rate?The unchanging value of the ratio between two proportional quantities is

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Explanation:

'3 meals a day' is a unit rate because there is a 1 in the denominator.

A unit ratio is a fraction between two dissimilar units with a denominator 1.

'3 meals a day' indicate that someone is eating 3 meals in one day.

i.e. unit rate = 3 meals / per day

Therefore, we conclude that '3 meals a day' is a unit rate because there is a 1 in the denominator.

The unchanging value of the ratio between the two proportional quantities is called a constant of proportionality.

For example,

we know that the equation


y=kx

where
k is the constant of proportionality and '
y' and '
x' are two proportional quantities, directly proportional to each other.

Thus, The unchanging value of the ratio between two proportional quantities is called the constant of proportionality.

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