Question

You plan to construct a restaurant on a 20,000 square foot lot, but a local ordinance says that your parking area must be 60% of the lot space. How much space is left to construct your building?

Answer 1

First we need to find 60% of 20,000 sq ft.

so 20,000 x .60 = 12,000 sq ft.

since the parking space needs to be 12,000 sq ft, you'd have 8,000 sq ft. of the 20,000 left to construct the building.

Answer 2

`8,000ft^2`

Explanation:

If 60% of the land area is destined to be a parking area, the other 40% of the total 100% remains for the construction.

So what we need is to find how much 40% of the
`20,000ft^2` is:

• we divide the total area by 100 and multiply by the percentage (40):

`(20,000)/(100)*40=200*40=8,000`

or what is the same

• multiply the
  `20,000ft^2` by 0.4:

`20,000*0.4=8,000`

The space left to construct the building is
`8,000ft^2`