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. $1,326 = $17t What is the unit rate in the equation above?
The unit rate in the equation above is $17 per ticket sold.
To find the unit rate in the equation, we need to determine the amount of money raised per ticket sold.
The equation tells us that $1,326 was raised with t tickets sold. To find the unit rate, we divide the total amount raised by the number of tickets sold.
Unit rate = total amount raised / number of tickets sold
In this case, the total amount raised is $1,326 and the number of tickets sold is represented by t.
So, the unit rate is given by:
Unit rate = $1,326 / t
Therefore, the unit rate in the equation above is $17, as indicated by the coefficient accompanying the variable t.
To find the unit rate in the equation above, we need to determine how much money is raised per ticket sold.
We can rewrite the equation as:
$1,326 = $17 * t
To isolate t, we divide both sides of the equation by $17:
($1,326) / ($17) = t
Calculating the result:
t = ($1,326) / ($17)
t ≈ 78
Therefore, the unit rate in this equation is that $1,326 is raised for every 78 tickets sold.