What is the unit rate of 48 newspapers in 6 piles?

13 newspapers per pile.

quantityunits or items

Quantity 1

30

Unit 1

miles

Quantity 2

2.5

Unit 2

hours

=?

= 12 miles per hour

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This is a fraction equal to

30 miles ÷ 2.5 hours

We want a unit rate where

1 is in the denominator,

so we divide top and bottom by 2.5

30 miles÷ 2.5

2.5 hours÷ 2.5

=

12 miles

1 hour

=

12 miles

hour

= 12 miles per hour

the answer   is 200

step-by-step explanation:

this is a problem about poisson probabilities.   i don't know if you've

already studied poisson distributions, or if you have a place to look

to read more about the subject.  

here's how you can see a poisson distribution coming.   when there are

a lot of events that may happen at any time (or any place), and when

you're counting how many of them happen at a particular time (or a

particular place), and each event is independent of the others, then

the result is a poisson distribution.   this is roughly true for the

chocolate chips; one chip being in a cookie has only a small effect on

the probability that another chip will be in the cookie.

once you know you have a poisson distribution, you know a lot.   there

is only one parameter to a poisson distribution, so if you know the

mean, you know everything.   the form of the distribution is

  probability of n chips = {[e^(-x)]*(x^n)} / (n! )

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