Ratios Rates Measurement Conversion

What are Equivalent Rates?

• Rates that have the same unit rate

• Two numbers whose product is 1

• A process used to decide which conversion factor will produce the appropriate units

• A measurement system used mainly in the United States

What are Equivalent Ratios?

• Two ratios that describe the same relationship

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• The number a/b associated with the ratio a:b

• A comparison of two quantities

What is a Rate?

• A ratio that compares two quantities measured in different units

• A comparison of two quantities

• A process used to decide which conversion factor will produce the appropriate units

• A measurement system used mainly in the United States

What is a Ratio?

• A comparison of two quantities

• A rate in which the two quantities are equal

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• A decimal system of measurement

What is a Ratio Table?

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• The number a/b associated with the ratio a:b

• Two numbers whose product is 1

What is a Unit Rate?

• A rate that compares a quantity to one unit of another quantity

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

• A decimal system of measurement

• Two numbers whose product is 1

What is a conversion factor?

• Rates that have the same unit rate

  6 miles in 3 hours and 4 miles in 2 hours

• Two ratios that describe the same relationship

  2 : 3 and 4 : 6

• A rate that equals 1; A conversion factor is used to convert units.

  1 mile = 5280 feet

• A decimal system of measurement, based on powers of 10, that contains units for length, capacity, and mass

  centimeter, meter, liter, kilogram

What is a ratio?

• A comparison of two quantities; The ratio of a to b can be written as a : b. Ratios can be part-to-part, part-to-whole, or whole-to-part comparisons.

• A ratio of two quantities using different units You read 3 books every 2 weeks.

• A process used to decide which conversion factor will produce the appropriate units

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

What is a ratio table?

• A system of measurement that contains units for length, capacity, and weight

  inches, feet, quarts, gallons, ounces, pounds

• Rates that have the same unit rate 6 miles in 3 hours and 4 miles in 2 hours

• Two ratios that describe the same relationship

  2 : 3 and 4 : 6

• A table used to find and organize equivalent ratios

In a __________, the columns are filled with pairs of numbers that have the same ratio.

• Unit rate

• Ratio

• Equivalent ratios

• Ratio table