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SAT Math 10.1 Geometry and Measurement. How many cans of paint are needed?


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Hurry and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by square feet And you thought you had a tough

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time finding shoes that fit All right Well a campaign

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will cover sixty square feet How many cans of paint

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do you need to buy Tow Have enough paint to

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cover a wall Five feet three inches by thirty six

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feet Six inches You got it All right Well after

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we figure out the differences between eggshell and crew well

00:29

we need to figure out just how many square feet

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of wall we need to cover All right Problem gives

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the dimensions and feet and inches So we've got to

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start by converting all of it in defeat Well we

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know that there are twelve inches in a foot That

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means five feet Three inches equals five point two five

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feet and thirty six feet six inches equals thirty six

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point five feet Now all we have to do to

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get the square footage of our wall is multiply our

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converted numbers together So we get five point two five

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feet times thirty six point five feet equals one hundred

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ninety one point six to five feet squared Great Now

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Each paint can can wait Let's try that again Each

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can of paint can cover sixty square feet so we

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just divide a hundred eighty one point six to five

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by sixty and we find that we'll be using three

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point One nine three seven five cans of paint But

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for our final answer we'll have to round that up

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to four You got Apparently hardware store workers get grumpy

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when you try to buy a fraction of a can

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