standard_description: Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.” (Expectations for unit rates in this grade are limited to non-complex fractions.)
problem_activity: Watermelon is on sale for $4 per pound.
a.   How much would 5 pounds cost? 7.5 pounds? 12.8 pounds?
b.   Why do you think grocery stores show the price per 1 pound? How is it useful or efficient when determining the cost of differently sized watermelons?


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