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Multiplying a Rate by a Duration to Get a Total Amount

Recognizing that a quantity expressed per unit of something else — miles per hour, liters per minute, dollars per item — becomes a total when multiplied by how much of that something else there is. Covers identifying which quantity is the rate, which is the extent, and what the resulting total measures.

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Solving Distance-Rate-Time Word Problems Using a Rate-Time-Distance Table in Algebra

This concept teaches the distance-rate-time relationship, d = r * t, and its use in constructing a rate-time-distance table to organize known and unknown quantities for two related travelers or trips…