Rohan is buying new carpet from one of two stores. The cost of carpet from Store A can be represented by the equation y equals 6 x, where x represents the number of square feet and y represents total cost in dollars. The cost of the same carpet from Store B can be represented by the equation y equals 5 x.

Question

Question
Which store has the lower price on carpet? Move a letter and a word to the blanks and a number to the box to answer the question.
Response area with 3 blank spaces
Store
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has the lower price because its unit rate of
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dollars per square foot is
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than the unit rate of the other store.

Answer 1

To determine which store has the lower price for carpet, we can look at the unit rates for both stores.

For Store A:

• The equation is \( y = 6x \).
• The unit rate is \( 6 \) dollars per square foot.

For Store B:

• The equation is \( y = 5x \).
• The unit rate is \( 5 \) dollars per square foot.

Now we can fill in the response area:

Response area with blanks:

Store B has the lower price because its unit rate of 5 dollars per square foot is lower than the unit rate of the other store.