Question

Ms. Melcher plans to decorate her house. Ms. Melcher wants to buy a rug to cover her bed room floor. If Ms. Melcher's bed room is 51 meters long and 26 meters wide, how many square meters of carpet does she need?

Answer 1

The area of a square or a rectangle (which is the shape of any room in a house) is:

Area = width x length

So, in this case:

Area = 51 m x 26 m = 1326 Sq meters. Which is pretty big if you ask me.

Anyhow, Ms Melcher needs to buy 1326 sq meters