Ratios and Rates to Measurement

What are Equivalent Ratios?

• Two ratios that describe the same relationship

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• The number a/b associated with the ratio a:b

• A comparison of two quantities

What is a Rate?

• A ratio that compares two quantities measured in different units

• A comparison of two quantities

• A process used to decide which conversion factor will produce the appropriate units

• A measurement system used mainly in the United States

What is a Ratio?

• A comparison of two quantities

• A rate in which the two quantities are equal

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• A decimal system of measurement

What is a Unit Rate?

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• A decimal system of measurement

• Two numbers whose product is 1

What is the Value of a Ratio?

• The number a/b associated with the ratio a:b

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• Two numbers whose product is 1

What are Equivalent Rates?

• Rates that have the same unit rate

• Two numbers whose product is 1

• A process used to decide which conversion factor will produce the appropriate units

• A measurement system used mainly in the United States

What is the ratio of red apples to green apples

• 7 to 3

• 4 to 7

• 4 to 3

• 3 to 4

Four pounds of bananas cost $6.  What is the cost per pound of bananas?

• $24 per pound

• $1.50 per pound

• $1 per pound

• $6 per pound

Alicia drove at a constant speed and traveled 182.4 miles in 3 hours. What is her rate in miles per hour?

• 60.8 mph

• 547.2 mph

• 56 mph

• 60.7 mph

what is the ratio of seals to turtles?

• 5 : 3

• 3 to 5

• 3 of 5

• 3 : 8