Question

A student sees a newspaper ad for an apartment that has 1330 square feet (ft2 ) of floor space. how many square meters of area are there?

Answer 1

We know 1 meter = 3.28084 feet

So 1 square meter = 3.28084 × 3.28084 square feet.

Now to convert from square feet to square meters, we need to divide by 3.28084 × 3.28084.

The area given in the news paper advertisement is 1330 square feet.

So to convert to square meters we divide by 3.28084 × 3.28084

We get

1330 square feet = $\frac{1330}{(3.28084)^{2} } =123.56$

Hence 1330 square feet of area is equal to 123.56 square meters.