Angie can peel 1/6
of a crate of potatoes every 1/18
of a hour. Compute the unit rate.
Responses
A 1 crate of potatoes per hour1 crate of potatoes per hour
B 3 crates of potatoes per hour3 crates of potatoes per hour
C 6 crates of potatoes per hour6 crates of potatoes per hour
D 9 crates of potatoes per hour9 crates of potatoes per hour
E 4 crates of potatoes per hour
To find the unit rate, we need to determine how many crates of potatoes Angie can peel in one hour. Since Angie can peel 1/6 of a crate every 1/18 of an hour, we can set up a proportion to find out how many crates she can peel in one full hour.
Let x be the number of crates Angie can peel in one hour. Setting up the proportion:
(1/6 crate) / (1/18 hour) = x crates / 1 hour
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:
(1/6) * 1 = x * (1/18)
To solve for x, we need to divide both sides by (1/18), or equivalently, multiply both sides by its reciprocal, which is 18:
x = (1/6) * 18
x = 18/6
x = 3
So Angie can peel 3 crates of potatoes per hour. The appropriate answer is:
B) 3 crates of potatoes per hour