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.
If they get stuck
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 a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Which rate is greater?, step by step