Question

Mark transferred songs from his computer onto his portable music player. He transferred songs in minutes. How many songs did he transfer per minute?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

You're working with rates. It's relatively straight forward. Take miles per hour for instance. If you travel 60 miles in one hour, you're rate of speed is 60 miles per hour.

You haven't given any data in this example but the idea is the same. Let's say he transferred 10 songs in 5 minutes. That's means his rate is 10 songs per 5 minutes. You can change that to a fraction so it's easier to understand:

`(10 songs)/(5minutes)`

Now just reduce the fraction and it becomes

`(2 songs)/(1 minute)`

Also known as 2 songs per minute