shane wants to paint the outside of his house, the area to be painted is 217m2. five litres of paint will cover an area of 62m2. how many litres of paint will shane need to paint the outside of his house!
this is pretty easy, I'm sure you will be able to figure it out. Use your division.
please help me
can you show me how to do it
217/62 = 3.5 five L cans
However, do you think you can buy a 1/2 of a five L can ?
More than likely Shane will have to buy 4 of the 5L cans
(he will need 17.5 L,
so he has to buy 3 large cans and 3 smaller 1L cans
My experience is that it would probably cost more to buy 3 1L cans than one large 5L can)
To find out how many liters of paint Shane needs to paint the outside of his house, we can use the given information.
We are given that five liters of paint will cover an area of 62m². So we need to find out how many five-liter containers of paint will be needed to cover an area of 217m².
First, we calculate the number of 5-liter containers needed to paint 62m². Since each container covers an area of 62m², we divide the total area (217m²) by the area covered by one container (62m²):
217m² / 62m² = 3.5
So, it will take approximately 3.5 containers to cover an area of 217m². However, we cannot have a fraction of a container, so we will round up to the nearest whole number.
Therefore, Shane will need a minimum of 4 five-liter containers of paint to cover the outside of his house.