Unit Rates: college dorm charges are $6,300 for 35 students for 24 days

KWF

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How is the cost per day for each student determined if the college dorm charges are $6,300 for 35 students for 24 days?

The cost per day would be represented by $6,300/24 days is this then divided by 35 students?

The answer is $7.50
 
How is the cost per day for each student determined if the college dorm charges are $6,300 for 35 students for 24 days?

The cost per day would be represented by $6,300/24 days is this then divided by 35 students?

The answer is $7.50
Yes
 
I really don't want to seem rude, but I seem to recall you've asked variants on this exact question multiple times in the past. A quick review confirmed this recollection, as evidenced by this thread from April 2015, this thread from June 2015, and this thread from March 2017.

In each of those threads, you received an answer to your query, to indicate that the order of division does not matter with these so-called "complex fractions." Here, too, we can see that's the case.

\(\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{$6300}{35\:students}}{24\:days} = \dfrac{$6300}{35\:students} \cdot \dfrac{1}{24 \:days} = \dfrac{\dfrac{\dfrac{$6300}{35}}{24}}{\dfrac{student}{day}} = \dfrac{$7.50}{\dfrac{student}{day}}\)

\(\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{$6300}{35\:days}}{35\:students} = \dfrac{$6300}{24\:days} \cdot \dfrac{1}{35 \:students} = \dfrac{\dfrac{\dfrac{$6300}{24}}{35}}{\dfrac{day}{student}} = \dfrac{$7.50}{\dfrac{day}{student}}\)

As you (should) know, "$7.50 per student per day" is exactly equivalent to "$7.50 per day per student."

More generally, for any real A, B, and C of any units, we can say the following:

\(\displaystyle \dfrac{\dfrac{A\:unit\:1}{B\:unit\:2}}{C\:unit\:3}=\dfrac{\dfrac{A\:unit\:1}{C\:unit\:3}}{B\:unit\:2}=\dfrac{\dfrac{\dfrac{A\:unit\:1}{B}}{C}}{\dfrac{unit\:2}{unit\:3}}\)
 
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