Lesson 3

The strategy that Jeff used to compare the cost of filling up his truck in Canada versus filling his truck up in the United States is similar to the unit rate multiplication strategy you used in previous lessons to solve problems. The difference was that, in Jeff’s solution, multiple rates needed to be used. To solve the problem, Jeff had to convert the volume of the gas tank to the same unit of measurement and the cost of gas to the same currency.

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