James wants to carpet the room shown in the diagram. If he uses 12 ft wide carpet strips, how many linear feet will he need to buy?
Responses
A 11
B 12
C 20
D 60
E 120
To find the number of linear feet of carpet strips James will need to buy, we need to find the perimeter of the room.
From the diagram, it appears that two adjacent sides are 12 feet long, and the other two adjacent sides are both 8 feet long.
Perimeter = 2(12 ft + 8 ft) = 2(20 ft) = 40 ft.
However, since James wants to use 12 ft wide carpet strips, he will need to round up to the nearest multiple of 12.
The nearest multiple of 12 greater than 40 is 48.
Therefore, James will need to buy 48 linear feet of carpet strips.
However, none of the given answer choices match this result.
Therefore, it seems there may be an error in the diagram or the given answer choices.