Question

Mei is the manager of a hotel. She is placing rectangular rugs on the wood floors throughout the rectangular hotel lobby. The lobby is 38 feet long and 24 feet wide. Each rug is 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. She places 7 rugs throughout the lobby. The rugs do not overlap. How much of the lobby's floor is left uncovered by the rugs?

Answer 1

856 feet of the lobby floor is left uncovered.
38*24=912 Solve for the area of the lobby.
4*2*7=56 Solve for how much area is taken up by the 7 rugs.
912-56=856