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Fill in the blank: If a job can be completed in $t$ hours, then the rate of work can be expressed as $\frac{1}{}$ of the job is completed per hour.
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In this case, the job is one unit of work and it takes $t$ hours to complete. So we can write this as: \[1 = \text{rate} \times t\] Show more…
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