Question

An interior painter is painting a wall that is 8 feet by 14 feet he needs to determine how much paint he will need for the job if a pint will cover 40 square feet how many pints of paint are needed to paint the wall

Answer 1

8*14=112/40=2.8
2 and 4/5 cans of paint I believer

Answer 2

To paint the wall, the painter needs 2.8 or rounded to 3 pints of paint.

Explanation:

The dimensions of the wall are = 8 feet by 14 feet

So, the area of the wall is =
`8*14=112` square feet.

Now given is :

1 pint of paint covers 40 square feet.

So, the painter needs =
`(112)/(40)= 2.8` pints

Therefore, to paint the wall, the painter needs 2.8 or rounded to 3 pints of paint.