Question

a construction company orders tile flooring for the kitchen in three bathrooms of a new home the kitchen floor measures 48 square feet 2 bathrooms have floor that each Measure 30 and 1/2 square feet the third bathroom floor measures 42 1/2 square feet if the tile cost 2.39 per square foot what is that the least amount of money to the nearest cent the company spends on tile for all three bathrooms

Answer 1

We are not concerned with the tiles needed for the kitchen.

From the given information, there are two bathroom floors with the same measurement in terms of area. The area of each floor is 30.5 square feet

Area of both bathroom floors = 30.5*2 = 61 square feet

Area of the third bathroom = 42.5 square feet

Area of the three bathroom floors = 61 + 42.5 = 103.5 square feet

Given that the tile costs 2.39 per sqare foot, the least amount of money that the company would spend for all three tiles is

103.5 * 2.39 = 247.365

Rounding up to the nearest cent means rounding up to the nearest hundredth or 2 decimal places

Rounding up to the nearest cent, it becomes 247.37