SOLUTION: I need to setup a quadratic expression and work it for this word problem. Could someone help me. You have two rooms that are 12 x 24 that need wood flooring. Each box of wood fl

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Question 327046: I need to setup a quadratic expression and work it for this word problem. Could someone help me.
You have two rooms that are 12 x 24 that need wood flooring. Each box of wood flooring has 22.7 square ft in them. How many boxes would you have to have to finish both floors?
Answer by Theo(13342) About Me  (Show Source):
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2 rooms are each 12 feet * 24 feet.

each box of flooring has 22.7 square feet in them.

the square feet in each room is 12 * 24 = 288

2 room has a total of 2 * 288 = 576 square feet.

divide this by the square feet in each box of flooring to get total number of boxes = 576 / 22.7 = 25.37444934.

round this to the next highest integer to get 26 boxes of flooring.

you will need approximately 26 boxes of flooring.

I don't see the need for a quadratic equation to solve this.

All you need to know is that the area of the floor in each room is equal to the length * the width.

You have the area of the 2 rooms.

You just divide that by the square feet in each box to get the number of boxes.