Handles-n-Things is a small enterprise company buying new carpet for their office room. The room is 15 ft. wide and 24 ft. long.
The carpeting is sold only in square yards. How many square yards of carpeting will they need? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a square yard? Area of a rectangle = length x width. 40
To find the area, we multiply the length by the width! The carpet will cover the area of the room.
24×15=360
But, the carpeting is sold in square yards, not feet. There are three feet in a yard, which means that one yard is 1/3 feet. Since we have 360 square feet, we will divide it by three to get yards.
360/3=120
Therefore, the office would need 120 square yards of carpeting.
