SOLUTION: what will be the area of a lanter or cement flooring where the length is 143 feet and breadth is 13.10 feet. Please show the solution and also the conversion of inches and feet

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Question 982326: what will be the area of a lanter or cement flooring where the length is 143 feet and breadth is 13.10 feet. Please show the solution and also the conversion of inches and feet
Found 2 solutions by mananth, josgarithmetic:
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
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what will be the area of a lanter or cement flooring where

the length is 143 feet
and breadth is 13.10 feet.
1 foot is 12 inches
so 0.1 foot = 1.2 inches
Area = 143 * 13.10
Area = 1873.3 feet^2

Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
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Area is 143%2Afeet%2A13.10%2Afeet=1873.3%2Afeet%5E2.

One way to handle the three-tenths square foot is to find a conversion between square feet and square inches.
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Given some measure M square feet,
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Your fractional 0.3 square feet is
%280.3%29%2A144%2Ainch%5E2
43%2Ainch%5E2 to the nearest whole square inch.

Full answer: 1873 sq.ft. 43 sq. inches