Question

Stanley is putting wallpaper strips on his bathroom walls that have a total area of 460 ft2. Each strip of wallpaper covers 22 square feet. How many strips of wallpaper will Stanley need to fully cover his walls? Write your answer using the correct number of significant digits.

Answer 1

To get the answer you multiply giving the answer of 10,120.

Answer 2

21

Explanation:

We are given that Stanley is putting wallpaper strips on his bathroom walls that have a total area of 460 square feet.

Area of each strip =22 square feet

We have to find the number of strips of wallpapers will Stanley need to fully cover his walls.

In order to find the number of strips of wall papers we are dividing the area of walls by area of each strips

Number of strips of wall paper=
`(460)/(22)`

Number of strips of wall paper=20.909 =21 strips of wallpaper

Hence, Stanley will need strips of wallpaper to cover fully his walls=21