Rates and Unit Rates Exercises

Rates and Unit Rates

Objective A: Write as a Rate in Simplest Form

  1. 3 pounds of meat for 4 people

  2. 30 ounces in 24 glasses

  3. $80 for 12 boards

  4. 84 cents for 6 bars of soap

  5. 300 miles on 15 gallons

  6. 88 feet in 8 seconds

  7. 20 children in 8 families

  8. 48 leaves on 9 plants

  9. 16 gallons in 2 hours

  10. 25 ounces in 5 minutes

Objective B: Write as a Unit Rate

  1. 10 feet in 4 seconds

  2. 816 miles in 6 days

  3. $1300 earned in 4 weeks

  4. $27,000 earned in 12 months

  5. 1100 trees planted on 10 acres

  6. 3750 words on 15 pages

  7. $32.97 earned in 7 hours

  8. $315.70 earned in 22 hours

  9. 628.8 miles in 12 hours

  10. 388.8 miles in 8 hours

  11. 344.4 miles on 12.3 gallons of gasoline

  12. 409.4 miles on 11.5 gallons of gasoline

  13. $349.80 for 212 pounds

  14. $11.05 for 3.4 pounds

Objective C: Application Problems

  1. Find miles per gallon: An automobile driven 326.6 miles on 11.5 gallons.

  2. Find miles per hour: You drive 246.6 miles in 4.5 hours.

  3. Fuel usage per minute: Saturn-5 rocket uses 534,000 gallons of fuel in 2.5 minutes.