A carpenter measures the perimeter of a room to be 56'mc016-1.jpg". He needs to buy baseboard to finish the room but the store only sells it by the full metre. How many metres of baseboard will he need to buy?
To find out how many metres of baseboard the carpenter needs to buy, we first need to convert the perimeter measurement from feet to metres.
1 foot is equal to 0.3048 metres.
So, 56 feet is equal to 56 x 0.3048 = 17.069 meters.
Since the store only sells baseboard by the full metre, the carpenter will need to buy 18 metres of baseboard to finish the room.