What is the rate and unit rate of 420 miles in 7 hours?

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Jeremiah Andrews · Accepted Answer

Unit rate is #60# miles per hour.

As in #7# hours, distance covered is #420# mile in #1# day distance covered is #420/7# = #(6xx7xx10)/7=(6xxcancel7xx10)/1cancel7=6xx10=60# Hence, unit rate is #60# miles per hour.

Riley Anderson · Answer

60 miles/hour

The unit is 1 hour so the unit rate is 60miles per hour

#color(brown)("Speed (velocity) is measured in Miles per hour.")# This means that we have the count of miles traveled in 1 hour. In mathematical terms it is written as: #" "("miles")/("hour") ->("distance")/("time")# '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let the count of miles traveled in 1 hour be #x# #color(magenta)("Treat as a ratio in that:")# #=>("distance")/("time") ->420/7 -=("miles traveled")/1# #color(white)(.)# #" "("miles traveled")/1=(420-:7)/(7-:7) # #color(white)(.)# #" "("miles traveled")/1= 60/1color(white)(..)("miles")/("hours")-> # miles/hour The unit is 1 hour so the unit rate is 60miles

Luna Angel · Answer

undefined The rate is 60 miles per hour, and the unit rate is 1 mile per minute.