Question

The walls of a square room need painting. Each of the four walls is 12ft wide by 8.5 feet tall. One gallon of paint covers 75ft2. How many gallons will you need

Answer 1

5.44 gallons of paint

Explanation:

First, we calculate the total area of the walls we need to paint. To do this, we use the formula for the area of a rectangle and we multiply our answer by 4, since there are 4 walls.

Area=(length*width)4

Area=(12*8.5)4

Area=(102ft^2)4

Area=408ft^2

Therefore, the total area of the walls is 408ft^2.

Now, we need to calculate the number of gallons we need to paint 408ft^2 worth of wall. Because we know that one gallon of paint covers 75ft^2, we can calculate this by dividing 408 by 75.

408/75

=5.44 gallons

Therefore, we would need 5.44 gallons of paint to paint the four walls.

I hope this helps!