Wayne plays multiple instruments in a rock band. He also composes the songs. He takes 36 weeks to write the songs for an album of 12 songs. If you assume he takes an equal amount of time to compose each song and graph this relationship with the number of weeks on the x-axis and the number of songs on the y-axis, what is Wayne's unit rate for composing a song?
A.
1/9 of a song per week
B.
1/3 of a week per song
C.
1/3 of a song per week
D.
3 songs per week

Question

Wayne plays multiple instruments in a rock band. He also composes the songs. He takes 36 weeks to write the songs for an album of 12 songs. If you assume he takes an equal amount of time to compose each song and graph this relationship with the number of weeks on the x-axis and the number of songs on the y-axis, what is Wayne's unit rate for composing a song?
A. 
 1/9 of a song per week
B. 
 1/3 of a week per song
C. 
 1/3 of a song per week
D. 
 3 songs per week

dude · Answer

We first need to know which are the x and y variables

We have either the time or the amount of songs made

Do you know which one is which?

Laci · Answer

36 is the Y I think, 12 is the X???