Question

Aa'ida is ordering laminate flooring to install in a number of condominium kitchens she's remodeling. She has to remodel 10 total kitchens each measuring 8 feet × 10 feet. Each box of the laminate she'll be purchasing covers 1 square meter. What's the minimum number of boxes Aa'ida can purchase in order to remodel all 10 kitchens? Hint: Calculate the number of total square footage first, and then convert.

Answer 1

74.36 m^2 is the total flooring area in m^2.

Explanation:

10 - 8 by 10 ft kitches comes to 800 ft^2. We need to convert this to m^2. Recall that 1 m = 3.28 ft. From this we know that (1 m)^2 = (3.28 ft)^2 = 10.76 ft^2.

Multiply 800 ft^2 by the conversion factor (1 m)^2 / 10.76 ft^2. We get:

74.36 m^2.