How many gallons of paint are required to paint the entire area if one gallon covers 25 square feet? Note: 10 ft. 7 in. is equivalent to 10.58 ft.
What area?
The questions is response to a square room whose sides are 10ft 7in.
Are you just painting the floor? Or the ceiling?
If the walls are to be painted, we need to know the height of the room.
The area of a square has equal lengths and widths. A square is a rectangle with equal lenths and widths...right? I used the a=LH which would be a= (10.58ft.)(10.58ft), A=111.9364 sq. ft./25 or 4.47
Right.
However, I wonder if this problem is correct. Most gallons of paint cover far more than 25 square feet.
Also -- your problem doesn't indicate what you're painting -- walls, ceiling, floor?
Walls............As part of the remodeling project at the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital, the square walls that house the children’s play area need to be painted.
How many gallons of paint are required to paint the entire area if one gallon covers 25 square feet? Note: 10 ft. 7 in. is equivalent to 10.58 ft.
To paint the walls, we need to know their height.
If each wall is 10.58 feet wide and 10.58 feet tall, then each wall covers 111.9364 sq. ft. The room has 4 walls.
111.9364 * 4 = 447.7456 square feet.
447.7456 / 25 = ?
17.9 which is a lot paint
but most gallon of paint covers more wall area....so 17.9 gallons or 18 gallons would be correct for this problem
I still think there's something wrong with your problem. A gallon of paint covers far more than 25 square feet. Are you sure it doesn't say that a gallon covers 250 square feet?
Also -- I think you may have missed the height of the room. If the room is square -- and has 10.58 feet on each side, you need the height of the walls -- which typically is 8 feet.
Please go back and type the entire problem here, making sure that you've typed it correctly.