Question

Suppose you want to carpet a rectangular room that is 6 feet by 12 feet. Carpet costs $10 per square yard. Note that 1 yard = 3 feet. How much does it cost to carpet the room?

Answer 1

first...find the area of the rectangular room...do you know how to do that?

Answer 2

72

Answer 3

/3

Answer 4

24

Answer 5

240x10= 240

Answer 6

isn that correct?

Answer 7

nope

Answer 8

firstly... you were right...there are 72 cubic feet <--that is the area

Answer 9

to turn that into CUBIC yards...you divide by 9..not 3

so what is 72/9?

Answer 10

8

Answer 11

now multiply by 10

Answer 12

I think square feet not cubic feet @lg

Answer 13

yes

Answer 14

but why divide by 9

Answer 15

i did

Answer 16

1 yard = 3 feet

but you have square feet..so you square both sides

1 square yard = 9 square feet

make sense?

Answer 17

3 feet = 1 yard
9 square feet=1 square yard

Answer 18

dammit, i saw the squared after the fact. almost got 100 on a quiz.... next time i suppose. thanks tho

Answer 19

welcome