Area — Floor Covering
You have an apartment with two rooms
that need to have the carpet replaced.
The room dimensions are as follows:
12’ 4” by 10’ and 14’ 8” by 16’. How
many square yards of carpet are need-
ed and what is the total cost at $11.75
per square yard?
Steps
Keystrokes
Display
Clear calculator
[On/C] [On/C]
0.
1 – Find Area of Room 1
Enter length
12 [Feet] 4 [Inch]
of room 1
12- 4
FEET INCH
Multiply by width
[x] 10 [Feet] [=]
123.3333
SQ FEET
Store in memory
[M+]
M
123.3333
SQ FEET
2 – Find Area of Room 2
Enter length
14 [Feet] 8 [Inch]
of room 2
M
14
FEET
8
INCH
Multiply by width
[x] 16 [Feet] [=]
M
234.6667
SQ FEET
Add to memory
[M+]
M
234.6667
SQ FEET
3 – Find Total Area
Recall total
[Rcl] [Rcl]
358
SQ FEET
Conv to sq yds
[Conv] [Yds]
39.77778
SQ YD
Enter per unit price/
estimate $ cost
[x] 11.75 [Conv] [•]
$467.39
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