Jane's curtain company is making curtains for a local hotel. She wants each curtain to be 36 inches long. At the fabric store, fabric is sold by the foot. If Jane's curtain company wants to make 46 curtains, how many feet of fabric will she need?
1 inch =
1
12
foot

When rates are expressed as a quantity of 1, such as 2 feet per second or 5 miles per hour, they are called unit rates. if you have a multiple-unit rate such as 120 students for every 3 buses, and want to find the single-unit rate, write a ratio equal to the multiple-unit rate with 1 as the second term.