SOLUTION: how do you write $20 for 4 items as a unit rate

Question 699392: how do you write $20 for 4 items as a unit rate

Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

This is fairly standard for items sold in stores.

You can think about it as PRICE per UNIT.

This can be represented as

In words, you want the total price of the "stuff,"

divided by the total amount of items of that "stuff."

So, in your case, we have:

dollars

So our unit rate (or the price for 1 single item) is simply 5 dollars each,

or a unit rate of 5 dollars.

I hope this helps! Keep practicing! :)

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