A house contains one 12-foot-×-14-foot bedroom, one 12-foot-×-10-foot bedroom, and one 8-foot-×-12-foot bedroom. What’s the total amount of carpeting needed to carpet all three bedrooms?

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anonymous · Answer

To carpet all of them you need to get the area from all three and add.
 (12 x 14) + (12 x 10) + (8 x 12) = ?

anonymous · Answer

so multiply the numbers then add?

anonymous · Answer

Yes. Multiply first always...Unless addition is in parenthesis.  -->  (  )  these

anonymous · Answer

i got 384

anonymous · Answer

Correct

anonymous · Answer

ok here's an other problem that i would like to understand how to solve.

 In a manufacturing plant that produces new computers, a 0.15 probability exists that a computer will be defective. If five computers are manufactured, what’s the probability that all of them will be defective?

anonymous · Answer

I don't know that one :/

anonymous · Answer

its ok thank you

anonymous · Answer

no problem might i suggest you close and start a new question?