Which one is faster? These free printable worksheets put an equation next to a table or a written rate and ask which has the greater rate.
Kid stuck on one? You don’t just get the sheet.
The answer key prints on a separate page.
The bigger number on the page is often the wrong answer, and that is the whole sheet. Put y = 7x next to “45 km in 9 hours” and a student who compares what is written picks the 45. It is 5 km per hour, and it loses. Nothing on the page can be compared until both sides have been turned into the same kind of number, and turning each one into a rate PER ONE is the only work there is here.
So every page carries questions where the bigger printed number belongs to the slower one, drawn from a stratum of their own rather than left to luck. A sheet where the bigger number always wins can be cleared by reading instead of by dividing, which is exactly what this standard exists to stop.
One question from this sheet, worked through a step at a time.
A x: 4, 7, 10 y: 60, 105, 150 B y = 3x, y words and x minutes