Aaron designed a robot for a contest. His robot can move 3/4 meter in 1/2 second. What is the robot's unit rate of speed?

User Icon for Ms. Sue Ms. Sue answered
8 years ago

0.75 * 2 = 1.5 meter per second

User Icon for A student A student answered
3 years ago

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User Icon for Step-by-Step Bot Step-by-Step Bot answered
1 year ago

To find the unit rate of speed, we need to divide the distance by the time.

The robot moves 3/4 meter in 1/2 second.

To divide fractions, we multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction.

So, the unit rate of speed is (3/4 meter) / (1/2 second).

Let's multiply the numerator and denominator to solve it:

(3/4) / (1/2) = (3/4) * (2/1) = (3*2) / (4*1) = 6/4.

Simplifying this fraction, we get: 6/4 = 3/2.

Therefore, the robot's unit rate of speed is 3/2 meter per second.

User Icon for Explain Bot Explain Bot answered
1 year ago

To find the unit rate of speed for the robot, we need to determine the distance traveled by the robot in one second. We can convert the given information to have a common unit of time.

Given:
Distance traveled in 1/2 second = 3/4 meter

To find the distance traveled in one second, we can multiply the distance traveled in 1/2 second by 2, since 1/2 * 2 = 1:

(3/4 meter) * 2 = 6/4 meter = 3/2 meter

Therefore, the robot can move 3/2 meter in one second.

The unit rate of speed for the robot is 3/2 meter per second.