Constant of Proportionality In Words
Jude sends 45 E-mails in 15 minutes.
How many E-mails did he send per minute?
He sent 3 E-mails per minute.
Navelle earns $12 per hour. Write an equation that represents Navelle's earnings.
y = 12x
Lenasia earned $640 in a 40-hour work week.
What is Lenasia's hourly rate of pay?
Lenasia earns $16 per hour.
Gianna reads 27 pages in 9 minutes. At What rate does Gianna read?
Write an equation for this relationship.
Gianna reads 3 pages per minute.
y = 3x
A helicopter propeller spins 2400 revolutions in 4 minutes. What is the constant of proportionality (k), in revolutions per minute?
The constant of proportionality is k = 600 RPM.
Maxine works at law office. the equation y = 135x represents her earnings.Determine how much money she makes if she works 40 hours.
Maxine earns $5,400 in 40 hours.
Jeff earned $400 working a 40-hour work week.
Find Jeff's hourly wage and use it to predict how much he will make if he works for 47 hours.
Jeff makes $10 per hour and would make $470 IN 47 hours.
The equation y = 55x represents the rate of the Long Island highway speed limit, in miles per hour. Let x represent the number of hours driven and y represent the total miles driven.
How long was Francis driving if he drove 247. 5 miles at the speed limit.
Francis drove for 4.5 hours.
Janine sells 16 apples for $8.00. What is the unit price for each apple?
How much would she earn if she sold 64 apples?
The unit price is $0.50 per apple.
Janine would earn $24 for selling 64 apples.
If Jackson ate hamburgers at a rate of 3.5 hamburgers per minute and Jacen ate hamburgers at a rate of 4.7 hamburgers per minute, write an equation that could represent how many more hamburgers Jacen can eat more than Jackson.
y = 1.2x