Hw 15.55 b

[Nina Gautam 1K]

This is a concept question from the homework and maybe it's just the wording but I don't understand the solution...
The statement reads "At equilibrium, the rate constants of the forward and reverse reactions are equal." The solutions manual says it is false, and that the rates of forward and reverse reactions are equal but not the rate constants. I am confused because isn't K = k/k', where k is the rate constant of the forward reaction and k' the rate constant of the reverse reaction? That would make them the same thing?
Thanks!

[lauren chung 2f]

k and k' would only equal each other if K=1, which we know isn't always the case. so the rate constants of the forward and reverse reactions are not always equal.