Question

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Answer 1

Carpet sells for $4 per square foot and will cost you $840 to recarpet your room. If your room is 14 feet long, how many feet wide is it?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

im going too give you what I got

Answer 4

how many 14s are in 840?

Answer 5

err, thats a 4

Answer 6

how many 4s are in 840?

Answer 7

i got w=91

Answer 8

what is 840/4 ?

Answer 9

210

Answer 10

then we have 210 square feet to worry about

14w = 210, what is w?

Answer 11

15

Answer 12

then 15 it is

Answer 13

what I did was 210=28+2w and got w=91

Answer 14

why would you do that? we want area, not perimeter

Answer 15

aha sorryyyyy i got them confused :(

Answer 16

The United States Department of Agriculture reports that 12% of Americans are now on food stamps. If there are 310,000,000 Americans, how many are on food stamps?

Answer 17

practice makes perfect :)

Answer 18

if we know 1% then we can scale it to 12%

what is 1% of 310 million

Answer 19

310,000

Answer 20

1% is just a division by 100

310,000,000
----------- = 3,100,000
100

Answer 21

since we know 1%, then 12 1%s is 12%

12*3,100,000 is?

Answer 22

37200000

Answer 23

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