Question

1. A living room is 15 ft x 19 ft. The walls of the room are 8.5 ft tall.

Calculate the total area of the West wall?

How many rolls of wallpaper will you need to cover the wall. One roll will cover 44 square feet

What will be the cost of the wallpaper? ($14.99 for a pack of 2 rolls)

2. Calculate the following for the remaining walls

Calculate the total area of the North Wall. (Note: You are not painting the Kitchen door.) Kitchen door is 3.5 ft wide by 7 ft tall

Calculate the total area of the East Wall.

Calculate the total area of the South Wall. (Note: You are not painting the Front Door or the Window.) Front door is 3.5 ft wide by 7 ft tall and the window is 8 ft by 4 ft tall

Calculate the total area of the North, East, and South Walls combined.

How many cans of paint do you need? Why? (Remember, you are doing a double coating.) one can of paint will cover 400 square feet and is $17.99 per can

Calculate the total cost of paint.

3.When looking at your dingy carpet, you noticed the dirt trail leading from the Front Door to the Kitchen Door. In order to negate this problem you decided to create a 4 ft laminate tile walkway from the Front Door to the Kitchen Door. Then the rest of the room would be re-carpeted.

Calculate the following for the new walkway.

What are the dimensions of the new walkway?

Calculate the total area of the new walkway.

Calculate how many boxes of laminate tiles you need. Laminate tiles one box will cover 12 square feet and is $24.99 per sq yd

Calculate the total cost of creating the new walkway.

4. Calculate the following for the recarpeted area.

What is the dimension of the area that will be recarpeted?

Calculate the total area that will be recarpeted in sq ft.

Calculate the total area that will be recarpeted in sq yd.

Calculate the total cost of the recarpeted area.Carpet is sold by the square yard and is $29.99 per sq yd

4. Calculate the total cost of the recarpeted floor and making a new walkway.

5.Next, it is time to fix the ceiling. After all the other work you have done, you decided it was best to keep the ceiling uniform with a single type of tile.

Calculate the total area of the ceiling.

Calculate the total amount of boxes of ceiling tiles you need. One box of tile will cover 20 square ft and it is $19.99 per box

Calculate the total cost of the ceiling tiles.

6. Finally, you are finished! All that is left is to calculate how much money you spent on your wonderful renovations.

What was the total cost of fixing the entire living room? Give an itemized list.

Answer 1

1) Given living room is 15 ft x 19 ft. and the walls of the room are 8.5 ft tall.

Then, the total area of the west wall is = (19*8.5) square feet = 161.5 square feet.

Also given one roll of wallpaper will cover 44 square feet.

Then, required roll of wallpaper is = (161.5/44) rolls 4 rolls.

And, the cost of 4 rolls of wallpaper is = $(14.99*4/2) = $29.98

2) Total area of the north wall is = [(15*8.5)-(3.5*7)] square feet = 103 square feet.

Total area of the east wall is = (19*8.5) square feet = 161.5 square feet.

Total area of the south wall is = [(15*8.5)-(3.5*7)-(8*4)] square feet = 71 square feet.

Now, the total area of the North, East, and South Walls combined is = (103+161.5+71) square feet = 335.5 square feet.

Given that one can of paint will cover 400 square feet and is $17.99 per can.

Then, i need (335.5*2/400) 2 cans of paint.

And, the total cost of paint is = $(17.99*2) = $35.98