Question

What would the unit rates be for a temperature change of 20 degrees in 4 hours?
Record any fractional answers in decimal form @igreen

Answer 1

plzz help @iGreen

Answer 2

@Hero

Answer 3

Unit rate means per one unit.
In this case, it means degrees per hour.
"per" means division, so you need to divide the number of degrees by the number of hours.

Answer 4

In other words, 20 degrees in 4 hours is how many degrees in 1 hour?

Answer 5

idk im really bad at math @mathstudent55

Answer 6

Do you have difficulty understanding this statement: "divide the number of degrees by the number of hours." ?

Answer 7

Is it 5 degrees/hours and 0.4 for hours/degree?

Answer 8

if i gave you 20 sweets in 4 hours how many would you get per hour ?

Answer 9

5?@jamaica25

Answer 10

@jamaica25

Answer 11

yes same as your question 5 deg.per hour

Answer 12

Thanks

Answer 13

ok

Answer 14

\(\dfrac{20^o}{4~hour} = 5~\dfrac{^o}{hour}\)

\(\dfrac{4~hour}{20^o} = 0.2~ \dfrac{hour}{^o}\)