Question

Shannon wants to carpet a rectangular room. The room measures 12 feet, 6 inches long by 9 feet, 9 inches wide. There is a rectangular area near the door, measuring 2 feet by 3 feet, that she will not carpet. What is the area of the floor Shannon will carpet

Answer 1

112.875 ft ²

Explanation:

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The first step to solving this problem is to find the area of the whole room

To do that we use the equation
`lxw` ( length times width)

`12(6)/(12) x 9 (9)/(12)`

if you plug that into a calculator you get that the area of the room is 121.875ft²

But we are not done because the problem says that there is a part of the room that is not going to get covered so to finish we find the area of that section and subtract it from 121.875

2x3=9

121.875-9=112.875

So we can conclude that the area of the room that is getting covered by carpet is 112.875 ft ²

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