Question

A rectangular floor is 18ft long and 12 ft wide. Lamar wants to carpet the floor with carpet tiles sold by square yard. Use the facts to find the area in square yard

Answer 1

Solution

The dimension of the rectangular floor is 18ft long and 12 ft wide

Using the conversion table

It is given that 1yd =3 ft

This shows that

12 feet will be equivalent to

$\frac{12}{3}=4yd$

Also 18ft will be equialent to

$\frac{18}{3}=6yd$

Therefore the new dimension is 6 yard by 4 yard

The area will be

$A=6\times4$

Therefore the required area is

$A=24yd^2$