Warm-up

Wednesday, October 21,

2009
Solve
a)Find the unit rate of a 12-oz bottle
of orange juice that sells for $1.29

b) If you are driving 65 miles/hour,

how many feet per second are you
driving?
Quick Check
2. Suppose you walk 2 miles in 35
minutes
a) Find the average b) Use the function
walking speed. to find how far
Write a rule to you would walk
describe the in an hour.
distance d you
walk as a
function of the
time t you walk.
Quick Check
3. A sloth travels 4. Solve each
0.15 miles per proportion
x+2 x
hour. Convert a. =
this speed to 14 10
feet per minute.
Quick Check
b. y − 15 = 35 c. 3 5
y+4 7 =
w+6 w−4
Rates and Conversions

Section 6.1
Objective: We will be able to
express rates with different
units.
 Changing Units
Change 27 feet per second to inches per
second.
Start by writing 1 ftin 324 in
27 ft 12
the rate as a ⋅ =
division 1 sec 11ftft 1 sec
Second we multiply by fancy
Next change units as needed to
“ones”. Thisfinish
mightthe
change the
multiplication and get
look of the problem, butunits
the correct not its
value.

Finally, we multiply to get our answer.

Another Example
(not animated)
A pool fills at 12 quarts per minute.
Find out how many gallons per
hour the pool fills.
Before You Try!
Please copy down (and use!!!) these
helpful English conversions:
1 mile = 5280 feet
1 cup = 8 fluid ounces
1 pint = 2 cups
1 quart = 2 pints
1 gallon = 4 quarts
1 pound = 16 ounces
Now You Try!
Change $7.10 per hour to dollars
per minute.

Change 65 miles per hour to feet

per second.
Try some more!
Convert 52 inches per minute to
yards per hour.

Change 36 miles per year to inches

per hour.
Some thoughts about why.
Why would we possibly bother with this?
At the 2008 Olympics Usain Bolt ran the
100 meter dash in 9.69 sec. How fast is
that?
(We change rates to gain meaning)

If one job pays a yearly salary of $45,000

and another pays $20 an hour, which pays
more assuming 40-hour work weeks?
(We change rates to solve problems)
Homework Time!
With lots of time to work on it, here
is your homework!!!

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Ticket to Leave
1. Bonnie and Tim do some yard work for
their neighbor. The ratio comparing the
amount of time each one works is 7:4. The
neighbor pays them $88. If Bonnie worked
more, how much should each of them
receive?

2. If 2 tons of rock costs $15.50, then how

many tons of rock can you buy for $45?