2015年AMC8试题及分析.pdfVIP

2015 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 1 How many square yards of carpet are required to cover a rectangular floor that is feet long and feet wide? (There are 3 feet in a yard.) Solution First, we multiply to get that you need square feet of carpet you need to cover. Since there are square feet in a square yard, you divide by to get square yards, so our answer is . Solution 2 Since there are feet in a yard, we divide by to get , and by to get . To find the area of the carpet, we then multiply these two values together to get