Randi went to Lowe’s to buy wall-to-wall carpeting. She needs 111.13 square yards for downstairs, 31.83 square yards for the halls, and 161.93 square yards for the bedrooms upstairs. Randi chose a shag carpet that costs $15.02 per square yard. She ordered foam padding at $3.13 per square yard. The carpet installers quoted Randi a labor charge of $3.78 per square yard.

What will the total job cost Randi? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

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Randi went to Lowe’s to buy wall-to-wall carpeting. She needs 111.13 square yards for downstairs, 31.83 square yards for the halls, and 161.93 square yards for the bedrooms upstairs. Randi chose a shag carpet that costs $15.02 per square yard. She ordered foam padding at $3.13 per square yard. The carpet installers quoted Randi a labor charge of $3.78 per square yard.

What will the total job cost Randi? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

Vocaloid · Answer

all of the carpeting is in the same units (sq yards) so you can just add them up

it costs 15.02 to buy each square yard, 3.13 to pad each square yard, and 3.78 to install each square yard so each square yard costs a total of (15.02 + 3.13 + 3.78)

so to find the total cost you'd multiply (15.02 + 3.13 + 3.78) * the square yardage from the first step, just be careful with order of operations and rounding and you should be goot to go