SOLUTION: the area of a room is meaured 12 ft by 15 ft. what is the correct answer in square yards?

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Question 352304: the area of a room is meaured 12 ft by 15 ft. what is the correct answer in square yards?
Found 2 solutions by nerdybill, rfer:
Answer by nerdybill(7384) About Me  (Show Source):
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the area of a room is meaured 12 ft by 15 ft. what is the correct answer in square yards?
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Since there are 3 ft per yard
we could rewrite the size of room from
12 ft by 15 ft
to
4 yds by 5 yds
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Area then would be
4*5
= 20 square yards

Answer by rfer(16322) About Me  (Show Source):
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12*15=180/9=20 sq yds