SOLUTION: Julio is covering the rectangular floor in his room with carpet. He covers the floor with 180 feet of carpet. The width of the room is 9 feet, what is the length.
Is it 20 feet
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Question 1071034: Julio is covering the rectangular floor in his room with carpet. He covers the floor with 180 feet of carpet. The width of the room is 9 feet, what is the length.
Is it 20 feet or 20 square feet and why?
Thank you!
Found 2 solutions by josgarithmetic, josmiceli:
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"feet", is just one direction or one dimension, and this is either a length or a width or a distance.
"square feet", is , or , or abbreviated . This is a measure of amount of surface or area.
The rest of your description is not clear.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The wording should be 180 square feet of carpet.
I would write it as 180 ft2
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The width and length are "linear" dimensions and
they are expressed as:
width = 9 ft
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Let = the length in feet
ft2
ft
So this is a linear dimension just like width.
It never hurts to write down ALL the dimensions involved
in a problem just to keep them straight
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