theo's mom bought an eight -pack of juice boxes at the store for $4. find the unit rate for the juice boxes. (example 4 ) __________
If $4 buys 8 juice boxes, then, dividing by 8, the rate is $0.50 per juice box, or two juice boxes per dollar.
For this case, the first thing we must do is define variables.
We have then:
x: total cost
y: total number of juices
The unit cost of each juice is:
\(C = \frac{x}{y}\)
Therefore, substituting values we have:
\(C = \frac{4}{8}\)
Rewriting we have:
\(C = \frac{2}{4}\)
\(C = \frac{1}{2}\)
\(C = 0.5\)
Answer:
The unit rate for the juice boxes is 0.5 $ / juice.