Who is able to pass out flyers at a faster rate?

Question

Northside High School is having a spaghetti dinner fundraiser. In order to advertise, students place flyers on neighborhood doors. Margie hands out 120 flyers in 2 hours. Jaxon hands out 18 flyers in 15 minutes. Who is able to pass out flyers at a faster rate? Defend your thinking.

Answer 1

Hi there,

You could use the "unit" rate to determine who has the rate of delivery.

Let's determine the number of flyers each person can deliver in a minute.

Margie hands out 120 flyers in 2 hours. Two hours is equivalent to 120 minutes.

Margie's unit rate would be :

120 flyers ÷ 120 = 1 flyer

120 minutes ÷ 120 = 1 minute

Jaxon hands out 18 flyers in 15 minutes.

Jaxon's unit rate would be:

18 flyers ÷ 15 = 1.2 flyers

15 minutes ÷ 15 = 1 minute

Jaxon would have the faster unit rate because he can hand out 1.2 flyers in a minute and Margie can only hand out 1 flyer each minute.