Question

Carpet sells for $5 per square foot and will cost you $1400 to re carpet your room. If your room is 20 feet long, how many feet wide is it?

Answer 1

Is the answer 14?

Answer 2

confusionn

Answer 3

what confuses you?

Answer 4

Is the answer 14 feet wide?

Answer 5

it says that per square feet is 5 bucks
and it says that for you to recarpet the whole area is 1400
now you need to find the total area by dividing 1400 by 5

Answer 6

if you have a 2 square feet of floor to carpet, how much you will pay if per feet is 5?

Answer 7

the problem is that you're guessing instead of doing it systematically

Answer 8

i did it my way; i'm just asking if it's right..

Answer 9

1400/5 = 280
280/20= 14