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9-50.

Two employees of Frontier Fence Company can install feet of fence in two days.  

  1. What is the unit rate for one employee?

    Create an expression by setting up a fraction with the given information.

    feet of fence per day per employee

  2. Write a proportion to show the relationship between this rate and feet of fence.

    Use the ratio from part (a) to help set up the proportion.

  3. At this same rate, how many employees are needed to install feet of fence in one day?

    Solve for the unknown in the proportion from part (b).

    employees