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How do unit rates relate to ratios?

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A unit rate is one in which the second number of the ratio is 1 - in some suitable units.
For example, 10 kilometres in 30 minutes can be converted to a unit rate as
20 kilometres per hour or 1/3 km per minute (or however many km per year, etc).

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