Question

Alice's mother wants to wallpaper two adjacent walls in Alice's bedroom. She also wants to put a border along the top of all four walls. The bedroom is 9 ft by 12 ft by 8 ft high. A) If each double roll covers approximately 60 fr and the wallpaper is sold in double rolls only, how many double rolls are needed? B) If the border is sold in rolls of 5 yd each, how many rolls of the border are needed?

Answer 1

A) The number of wallpapers needed to cover the walls is 6 double roll wall papers

B) The number of wall paper border rolls needed is 3 rolls

Explanation:

A) The given parameters are;

The dimensions of the room are 9 ft. by 12 ft. by 8 ft. high,

The area one double role wallpaper covers = 60 ft.²

Therefore, we have;

The area of the room wall = 12 × 8 × 2 + 9 × 8 × 2 = 336 ft²

The number of double rolls of wallpaper to be used = Area of wall/(area of wallpaper) = 336/60 = 5.6

Therefore, given that the wall papers are sold in single units, we round up to the next whole number of units to get;

The number of wallpapers needed to cover the walls = 6 double roll wall papers

B) The borders of a wallpaper are installed parallel (and installed along) to the ceiling line

Therefore, the amount of wallpaper border required is given as follows;

Wall paper border length required = 2 × Length of the room + 2 × Width of the room

∴ Wall paper border length required = 2 × 9 ft. + 2 × 12 ft. = 42 ft.

The size of each wall paper border sold = 5 yd. = 15 ft.

Therefore;

The number of wall paper border rolls required = 42 ft./(5 yd.) = 42 ft./(15 ft.) = 2.8 rolls

Therefore, we round up to get the number of wall paper border rolls needed as 3 rolls of wall paper borders.