The phrase "a representative rate of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a typical or average rate that reflects a broader category or group.
Example: "The study found a representative rate of 5% for the incidence of the disease across the population."
Alternatives: "an average rate of" or "a typical rate of".
He has been criticised for controlling a credit company, Everyday Loans, which charges members of the public interest at a representative rate of 74.8% APR.
However, there's a £25 annual fee on the card, in addition to a representative rate of 14 per cent (variable) on purchases if you don't clear your balance.
For example, Lloyds says that at least 51% of customers will receive its "best offer" of 0% on balance transfers for 34 months and a representative rate of 18.9% APR.
Halifax currently offers five credit cards including one offering a rate of 0% for the first 28 months on balances transferred in the first 90 days, which has a representative rate of 18.9% APR.
This may in part, be due to their rates of APR (which includes an astronomical representative rate of 4,214%) but there are other reasons too.
We present full stress-strain response curves of Seeberger sandstone and Carrara marble at high strain rates and an evaluation method to determine representative rates of deformation.
The dynamic mechanical behaviors of RAC structures at high strain rate representative of seismic conditions were also investigated experimentally in recent years.
Ascertaining representative rates of different types of errors such as duplications, omissions, phonetic alterations and lexical errors involved abstracting errors manually from a number of real world datasets and extrapolating these to the artificial data.
Most of the cards have a representative interest rate of 18.9% APR.
Yang et al. (2004) estimated a representative deposition rate of 1.05/hr for western countries.
It is therefore concluded that when assessing WAT, testing a representative range of cooling rates in addition to testing multiple instruments could be helpful in determining the worst-case-scenario.
