SOLUTION: A room 6 m by 5m is 4 m high. Allowing 15m^2 for a door and windows, how many gallons of paint is needed to paint is needed to paint the walls and ceiling if a gallon of paint can
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Question 556060: A room 6 m by 5m is 4 m high. Allowing 15m^2 for a door and windows, how many gallons of paint is needed to paint is needed to paint the walls and ceiling if a gallon of paint can cover 15m^2 of surface?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You don't paint the floor, so surface area in m2 =
m2 for ceiling
m2 for 2 facing walls
m2 for the other 2 facing walls
The total area is m2
gallons
68 gallons of paint is needed
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