Question

Liam decides to make a New

Year's goal to read more books.
One year later, he has read a total of 36 books. What is the unit rate of book per month that he read?

Answer 1

3 books per month

Explanation:

In rate problems you divide one kind of unit by another so that the units come out the way you want them.

Here we want to know "books" per "month," or books/month.

We know "books," and we know "months," so plug those in:

• 36 books
• 12 months

That equals 3 books/month, and sounds about right. See how the units stay as a fraction? That's the key to these.

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