Question

A company is repaving their parking lot and trying to decide how many parking spaces they can make when painting the new lines.

The lot has 3200 square feet of room for the parking spaces. A standard car's parking space is 162 square feet and a compact car's
parking space is 120 square feet. Select all of the following that are viable solutions to this parking lot situation.

A: 13 standard cars and 10 compact cars
B: 10 standard cars and 13 compact cars
C: 18 standard cars and 6 compact cars
D: 6 standard cars and 18 compact cars
E: 19 standard cars and 26 compact cars

Answer 1

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Answer:

B, D

Explanation:

It is convenient to let a calculator or spreadsheet do the repetitive calculations. The required area is less than 3200 square feet for choices B and D.