Question

Your redecorating your bedroom, and you want to put in a dressing table. The wall where you want to put it measures 4.7m. There is also a cupboard door on this wall, which takes up 410mm. The dressing table you like is 123cm wide. Once you've bought the dressing table , how much space on the wall, do you have left, not including the cupboard doors? I need this working out in metres please.

Answer 1

3.06 meters

Explanation:

The first thing you want to do, since we are working with different units here, is find out how many centimeters make a meter... and so on.

1cm = 0.01m

1mm = 0.001m

123cm = 1.23m (Dressing table)

410mm = 0.41m (Cupboard door)

Now all we need to do is subtract.

We can add the two numbers together or (If you prefer) subtract separately.

1.23 + 0.41 = 1.64

Now subtract that number from the measurement of the wall:

4.7 - 1.64 = 3.06

The amount of space left is 3.06m.