1) The Boateng family has a sickening house whose layout is shown above. They would like to renovate just bedrooms #2 and 3. Because you
are a contractor, you receive 20% off from Home Depot whenever you
make any purchases. If Home Depot sells your client's ideal wool carpet
for $8.99 per square foot, how much will it cost to carpet both
bedrooms? (Keep in mind that 10'8" would be written as a decimal
approximation of 10.67 ft. Think about why this is.)
a) How many total square feet of carpeting will you need?

The cost will be $1662.136  

The total square ft of carpeting will be 231.1122ft^2    

Step-by-step explanation:

For the bedrooms,  the dimension from the image is shown as(see attahced)

Bedroom #2= 10"8' x10"4'

Bedroom #3= 10"8' x11"4'

let us convert all dimension to feet and solve for the area of the bedrooms

Bedroom #2= 10"8' x10"4'

Bedroom #2=10.67x10.33feet

Area of Bedroom #2= 110.2211ft^2

Bedroom #3 = 10"8' x11"4'

Bedroom #3 =10.67x11.33feet

Area of Bedroom #3= 120.8911ft^2

The total area of both rooms is

Total area=110.2211+120.8911

Total area=231.1122ft^2

now the cost of one square floor s $8.99

hence the cost of 231.1122ft^2 will be

Cost of carpet = 231.1122*8.99

Cost of carpet = $2,077.67

Given that, because you are a contractor, you will receive 20% off

therefore it will cost

= (20/100)*2,077.67

=0.2*2,077.67

=$415.534

The cost will now be  $2,077.67-$415.534

= $1662.136

because linear equations are a lot simpler than quadratics equations, and linear equations formula is a lot easier to memorize. that's why i think they're harder.

hi there!

the answer will be d: 2