Question

You are the flooring department supervisor at aretail store. A customer wants to purchase flooringto completely cover a 10-foot-by-12-foot room. Theflooring comes in boxes that each contain15.6 square feet of flooring. Only full boxes offlooring can be purchased. What is the minimumnumber of boxes of flooring that the customer willneed to cover the floor completely?

Answer 1

The floor is rectangular.

Since the area of a rectangle is given by the product of its length and width the area of the floor is given by:

`12*10=120`

Therefore, the minimum number of boxes is given by:

`(120)/(15.6)\approx8`

Hence, the minimum number of boxes is 8