Question

A room is 20 ft by 15 ft. The carpeting selected is $

37 per square yard. What is the cost of the carpeting?

Answer 1

The room is 20 / 3 yd by 15 / 3 = 5 yd, which is (20 / 3) x 5 = 33.33 square yards. So the cost of carpeting would be 33.33 x 37 = $1233.33