PA-U2.2c Lesson: One Step Word Problems Distance, Rate & Time

Multiple Choice

ACT Practice Warm-Up:

Joey and his 3 friends split a bag of candy. If their were 24 pieces of candy in the bag how many pieces of candy did each person get?

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Unit 2 L2c:
One Step Word Problems, Distance Rate & Time

Concept:

​Distance, Rate, & Time

​Procedure:

1) Make sure all units match.
2) To solve for an unknown in the formula, substitute the known values and use inverse operations to isolate the unknown.

​Example 1: Cheese Wheel Runner

Distance = 200 yds
Rate =
Time = 15 seconds

​Example 2: The Cheese Wheel

Distance = 200 yds
Rate =
Time = 8 seconds