Question

What is the unit rate of $\$6.00$ for $12$ oranges?

Answer 1

Hint: Here we have been given a rate of $12$ oranges and we have to find the unit rate. Unit rate means value of one. Firstly we will write the rate of a given quantity in an equation. Then as we have to find the rate of one orange we will divide the value by $12$ and simplify it to get our desired answer.

Complete step by step answer:
It is given to us that $12$ oranges costs $\$6.00$ and we have to find the unit rate.
So we can write the above statement as:
$12$ Oranges $=\$6.00$
Unit rate means value of one orange so we will divide the above equation by $12$ as follows:
$\dfrac{12}{12}$ Oranges $=\dfrac{\$6.00}{12}$
$1$ Orange $=\dfrac{\$1}{2}$
$\therefore 1$ Orange $=\$0.5$
So we got the answer as $\$0.50$
Hence the unit rate of $\$6.00$ for $12$ oranges is $\$0.50$.

Note:
We should note that the price is given in dollars. Our answer should also be in dollars, don't change the unit until mentioned. When two quantities of different units are compared and they are expressed in a ratio then one of them should be converted to another so compare.