Like a Staircase
Or Like a Lemonade Stand
If you sell lemonade, and each glass costs $1, then for every glass you sell (which is a unit change), your money goes up by $1. That’s the change for every unit change in glasses sold.
So, it's like counting how much something grows or moves when another thing changes, just one step at a time!
Examples
- A car travels 60 miles in one hour, the rate of change is how fast it moves.
- If you earn $10 for every hour you work, your pay increases by $10 per hour.
- When a plant grows 2 inches every week, that's its growth rate.
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See also
- How Does 1.2 Algebraic Models Work?
- What's Up With Imaginary Numbers?
- What is algebraic?
- What are linear inequalities?
- What are algebraic structures?