Activity Shannon is at the fair. She has already been on a couple of rides, and now she has only 13 tickets left. She wants to use her tickets wisely to get
the maximum ride time with her remaining tickets. She wants to find the rates (ride time per ticket) of the different rides in the fair. This table
shows the cost, in tickets, and the ride time for the six rides at the fair:
Ride
Ferris wheel
Cost (tickets) Ride Time (seconds)
1
55
2
30
Tilt-A-Whirl
Spin-O-Rama
3
45
Hele
2
40
bumper cars
Straight Up!
carousel
3
15
2
50
Part A
Find the rate for each ride in seconds per ticket using the formula rate =
ride time
number of tickets. Type your answers in the table. The rate for the first
ride has been filled in for you. Simplify each rate as much as possible.