## anonymous one year ago Carpet is sold in square yards. How much carpet would a person need to buy for a rectangular room that has dimensions of 10 yards by 18 feet? 180 square yards 60 square yards 540 square yards 15 square yards

1. Astrophysics

That's 18 feet right and not yards

2. anonymous

yes

3. Astrophysics

|dw:1440085584163:dw| we just need to use the area of a rectangle which is length x width. All you really have to do here is convert 18 feet into yards. 1 yard = 3 feet

4. Astrophysics

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5. anonymous

12yard 6ft

6. anonymous

around

7. ganeshie8

18 feet = how many yards ?

8. anonymous

6

9. Astrophysics

Good

10. anonymous

32 yards around

11. Astrophysics

|dw:1440085977386:dw| now just do length x width which is area of a rectangle

12. Astrophysics

32 yards for what?

13. anonymous

around

14. Astrophysics

Ah the perimeter is 32 yards, correct, but we want area here :)

15. anonymous

alright

16. Astrophysics

$A_{rectangle} = l \times w$|dw:1440086151156:dw|

17. anonymous

60yards is area

18. anonymous

6*10 =60

19. Astrophysics

Yup, 60 square yards, remember when we multiply the dimensions the units are being multiplied to

20. anonymous

ok

21. anonymous

thanks

22. Astrophysics

Np