Question

You are redecorating your room and the only thing left to paint is your door. You're onlygoing to paint the side that faces the inside of your room. The door is 6 feet 10 inchestall and 30 inches wide. You need to know the surface area of the side of the door todetermine how much paint to buy. The hardware store sells paint by how much coversa square foot. What is the surface area of the garage door? Round your answer to thenearest square foot. (Hint: 1 square foot = 144 square inches) (gridded response)

Answer 1

The roblem tells us that a door needs to be painted on only one side that measures 6 ft and 10 in height by 30 in wide.

We need to find the area to be painted in order to buy the appropriate quantity of paint. The answer has to be given in square feet at the end.

We start by recalling that the door is represented by a rectangle, and the area of such is given by the height times the wid