Samantha is buying carpet for her family room, which is 8 yards by
13 yards. The carpeting is sold in square meters. How many square meters of carpeting will she need? (Use 1 yd ≈ 0.9144m.)
I am pretty sure 8 and 13 need to be squared and then added together maybe? But I'm not sure where the 0.9144 will come into play?
104x 0.9144 because for every yard you would need 0.9144 metres of carpet. The answer is 95.0976 metres square. Hope this helps.
8 * 0.9144 = 7.3152 meters
13 * 0.9144 = 11.8872
7.3152 * 11.8872 = 86.95724544 = 86.96 sq. meters
To find out how many square meters of carpeting Samantha will need for her family room, we need to calculate the area of the room first.
The formula for finding the area of a rectangle is length multiplied by width. In this case, the length of the room is 8 yards and the width is 13 yards.
So the area of the room in square yards would be 8 yards * 13 yards = 104 square yards.
Now, since the carpet is sold in square meters, we need to convert square yards to square meters using the given conversion factor: 1 yard ≈ 0.9144 meters.
To convert square yards to square meters, we need to multiply the area in square yards by the square of the conversion factor.
So, the area of the room in square meters would be 104 square yards * (0.9144 meters/1 yard)^2 = 86.0496 square meters.
Therefore, Samantha will need approximately 86.0496 square meters of carpeting for her family room.
It is saying the answer is 86.96 sq. meters though
sorry should've included that in the first place. I just don't understand how they got that answer