Question

The Smiths plan to recarpet their family room, which measures 15 ft. by 20 ft. How many square yards of carpet are needed?

Answer 1

Hi! :) It is quite simple, really. Convert feet to yard first, and we get 1ft = 0.33333 yard. So what happens now is that we want to find the area covered. Which means multiplying 15 by 20, right?

So after we do that and get the answer, we multiply this by the conversion, 0.33333. Hope this helped! :)