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Measuring Time and Rate

The document discusses measuring time, including converting between units of time like hours, minutes, and seconds. It also defines rate as a ratio that compares two different quantities with different units, such as words per minute. Examples are provided for calculating rates and converting between time units.

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Measuring Time and Rate

The document discusses measuring time, including converting between units of time like hours, minutes, and seconds. It also defines rate as a ratio that compares two different quantities with different units, such as words per minute. Examples are provided for calculating rates and converting between time units.

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MEASURING TIME

Objective:
In this lesson, you will learn to:
1. solve problems involving conversion of units of time.

Key Question:
Why is there a need to know how to measure
time?
The concept of time is very basic and is integral in the
discussion of other concepts such as speed. Currently,
there are two types of notation in stating time, the 12-
hr. notation(standard time) or the 24-hr. notation
(military or astronomical time). The standard time
makes use of a.m. and p.m. to distinguish between the
time from 12 midnight to 12 noon ( a.m. or ante
meridiem) and from 12noon to 12 midnight (p.m. or
post meridiem). Military time prevents this ambiguity by
using the 24-hour notation where the counting of the
time continues all the way to 24.
Choose the most reasonable unit for measuring each time interval.
1. a blink of the eye
2. time spent sleeping
3. a 100-meter dash
4. a 10-kilometre hike
5. basketball practice
6. a television commercial

Extension:
In everyday life, time intervals are usually measured in days,
hours, minutes, and seconds.
Measures of Time: Conversion
1 day= 24 hours (hr.) 1 minute= 60 seconds (sec.)
1 hour= 60 minutes (min.) 1 year = 365 days
1 decade = 10 years (yr.) 1 millennium = 1000 years
1 century= 100 years

Units of time can be changed to equivalent units.


Example 1.) Convert the measurement to the indicated unit.
a. 15 days = _____ hours b. 24 min. = _____sec.
c. 2 yr. = ______ hr.

Try it!
a. 8 hr. = ____min. b. 7,200 min. = _____days
c. 36 wk. = _____ hr.

Example 2.) Add 5 hr. 38 min. and 3 hr. 49 min. to find its sum.

Example 3.) Find the difference of 5 hr. 30 min. and 3 hr. 43


min.
Example 4.) The incubation time (days) of some animals are
given below. Convert the indicated incubation time to hours.
a. chicken (21 days) b. duck (30 days) c. pigeon (18 days)

Example 5.) An airplane bound for Beijing took off from the
Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 11:15 a.m. Its estimated
time of arrival in Beijing is at 1550 hrs. The distance from
Manila to Beijing is 2839 km.
a. What time (in standard time) is the plane supposed to
arrive in Beijing?
b. How long is the flight?
c. What is the plane’s average speed?
Try it!
1. A car left the house and travelled at an average speed of
60 kph. How many minutes will it take for the car to reach
the school which is 8 km away from the house?
2. Sebastian stood at the edge of the cliff and shouted
facing down. He heard the echo of his voice 4 seconds after
he shouted. Given that the speed of sound in air is
340m/sec., how deep is the cliff?
RATE
When two quantities of different units are compared and
expressed as a ratio, we refer to it as 'Rate'. For example, if we
say that a car travels at a speed of 100 miles per hour, then it
means in one hour it covers 100 miles. Here, miles and hours
are different units. This way of comparing two different units
expressed as a single ratio is termed as 'Rate’.
In math, a rate is a ratio that compares two different
quantities which have different units.
Examples:
❖ For example, if we say John types 50 words in a minute, then
his rate of typing is 50 words per minute.
Discussion:
The word "per" gives a clue that we are dealing with a rate.
The word "per" can be further replaced by the symbol "/" in
problems.
Let us consider an example of a car that is traveling at a
speed of 150 miles in 3 hours. This can be expressed as 150
miles divided by 3 hours which is equal to 150 miles/3 hours or
50 miles/hour.
Unit Rate

The unit rate is different from that of a rate, in which a


certain number of units of the first quantity is compared to one
unit of the second quantity. In other words, we can say that the
second quantity in the comparison is always 1. For example, in
one minute there are 60 seconds. Therefore, as a unit rate, we
can express it as 60 seconds per minute. Here, the word 'per
minute' refers to one minute. Some other examples include
walking for 30 minutes per day, reading 20 pages per hour.
Rate and Ratio Difference
Rate and ratio are completely different yet related terms
in math. The key differences between the two terms are listed
below.
Example 5.) A printer prints 60 pages of an e-book in 30
seconds. Find the unit rate of the number of pages printed per
second.
Solution:
The number of copies made in 30 seconds = 60. To find
the unit rate, we divide the total number of pages printed by
the total number of seconds. We get,
Unit rate = 60/30
=2
Therefore, the printer prints 2 pages per second or 2
pages/second.
Try it!
1. Dalisay is fond of baking and he bakes
wonderful cakes. He bakes 32 cakes in 8 hours.
Can you find his rate of baking cakes per hour?
2. Ricardo and his family planned for a vacation to
Disney World. They traveled 1000 miles and used
50 gallons of gas. Can you help him calculate the
average number of miles/gallon?

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