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Compare situations using unit rates, including speed, price, and work problems.
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6.RP.A.3.B — Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?
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Would you rather buy one 5-pound jug of honey for $15.35, or three 1.5-pound bottles of honey for $14.39? Justify your answer.
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Yaritza and Eddy race to school on their bikes. Eddy bikes 2 miles in 12 minutes, and Yaritza bikes 3 miles in 15 minutes. Who is going faster?
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Jack and Priya are setting up folding chairs for their school’s weekly Community Meeting. Jack can unfold and set up 55 chairs in 20 minutes. Priya can unfold and set up 44 chairs in 15 minutes. Who works at the faster rate? Justify your answer.
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Solve challenging problems involving unit rate.
Topic A: Defining Rate & Solving Rate Problems
Investigate and use rate in real-world situations.
Standards
6.RP.A.36.RP.A.3.B
Define rate and unit rate, and find rates from situations involving ratios.
6.RP.A.26.RP.A.3.B
Find unit rates and use them to solve problems.
6.RP.A.3.B
6.RP.A.26.RP.A.36.RP.A.3.B
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Topic B: Measurement Unit Conversions
Reason with measurement units and solve unit conversion problems using different strategies.
6.RP.A.3.D
Solve measurement unit conversion problems.
Topic C: Percent
Define percent as a rate per 100. Find percentages of 100 and 1.
6.RP.A.3.C
Solve percent problems using benchmark fractions and percentages, with and without written work.
Convert between fractions, percent, and decimals.
Find a percent of a quantity.
Find the whole quantity, given a part and percent.
Solve percent problems, including finding percent when given a part and a whole.
Solve multi-step problems involving rate and percent.
6.RP.A.26.RP.A.36.RP.A.3.C6.RP.A.3.D
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