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Mathematics (Grade 7)

Ratio and Proportional Relationships

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Ratio and Proportional Relationships: Understanding Unit Rate

Real-World Unit Rate Applications

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Real-World Unit Rate Applications
Introduction

Unit rates appear in many real-life situations where two quantities are compared to understand value, efficiency, or performance per single unit. From shopping and tra...

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Mia is running a small sticker sale for her school club. She sells 18 stickers in 1.5 hours and earns $27.

Now she wants to know how many stickers she sells and how much she earns in 1 hour.

First, she calculates a unit rate to find her selling speed per hour.

For that, she converts 1.5 hours into the fraction 3/2 and divides ...

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