Question

Hana paid $1,200 for the carpet in her living room. The room has an area of 251.2 square feet. What was her unit cost of carpeting in dollars per square foot? Round the nearest cent. Please help! :D

Answer 1

So, the full area was $1,200. The area was 251.2 sq. feet. We need to divide the $$ by the # of feet. Here's our equation:
\[1200/251.1\] Can you figure this out?

Answer 2

\[1200/251.2\] (sorry, didn't post before)

Answer 3

Thanks! I understand how to divide I just couldn't figure out the part you said mossy. Thanks for the help!

Answer 4

You're welcome!! Let me know if you need any more help

Answer 5

Okay :D

Answer 6

one way to figure it out. they want
" dollars per square foot"

You can think of "per" as "divided by" or "over"
\[ \frac{dollars}{foot}\]
now you know this problem has $1,200
and 251.2 square feet.
so you know it should be 1200/251.2

Answer 7

how do you work out the problem? i know you divide but i cant divide and get the answer you got.

Answer 8

what did you get ?

Answer 9

When I divided 12,000 by 2512 I got 4 with 1,962.0 left.

Answer 10

I moved the decimal over to divide.

Answer 11

ok.
you can type into google
12000/2512 =
to get the answer

If you are dividing by hand, you would do this