The students at Porterville Elementary sold raffle tickets, each for the same price, for a fundraiser. The equation below shows how much money was raised with t tickets sold.

$680 = $10t

What is the unit rate in the equation above?
$10 per raffle ticket
$68 per raffle ticket
$670 per raffle ticket
$680 per raffle ticket

Question

The students at Porterville Elementary sold raffle tickets, each for the same price, for a fundraiser. The equation below shows how much money was raised with t tickets sold.

$680 = $10t

What is the unit rate in the equation above?
$10 per raffle ticket
$68 per raffle ticket
$670 per raffle ticket
$680 per raffle ticket

anonymous · Answer

choice B because the unit rate is how many dollars for ! ticket. So we divide 10 from both sides since we only want one of them. The price should also be divided by 10 which results in $68

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

a

anonymous · Answer

no B because 680 divided by 10 is 68

anonymous · Answer

look at it

danjs · Answer

Total $ = (Ticket Price)*(# tickets sold)

danjs · Answer

If you divide by 10, that will tell you how many tickets you sold, not the price per ticket.

danjs · Answer

"unit rate" is the price per unit sold, or per ticket sold

563blackghost · Answer

Did you get your answer?

anonymous · Answer

680 = 10t  you want to get the variable by itself 
$$\frac{ 680 }{ 10 } =t      $$ divide

$$t =68$$

danjs · Answer

no, t= how many tickets were sold, not the unit rate price per ticket

68 tickets were sold,  each ticket was 10 dollars

anonymous · Answer

what! No medal for me?