2024 Caboodle National Books Puzzle
Quizzes & Puzzles3 mins ago
No best answer has yet been selected by stevie-p. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Yes, as Hammer says, you will not be able to buy 5.9915 sq metres. You will have to take into account what widths the floor covering is supplied in. I suspect it is not made in widths greater than 5 metres, so you will have to run it lengthways. I imagine you do not want any joins so this means you will have to buy at least 5.210 metres of material at least 1.150 metres wide.
Assuming the supplier sells in 0.5m units and 1.5m is the minimum width available, you will have to pay for (5.5 x 1.5) = 8.25 square metres. If the minimum width available is 2 metres your requirement will increase to 11 square metres � almost twice as much as you need!.