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Question

In the United States, Lowe’s sells a particular carpet for $4.88 per square foot. In the United Kingdom, Carpet Right sells a similar carpet for £12.99 per square meter (that’s 12.99 Pounds Sterling per square meter).

The current exchange rate is 1 Pound Sterling = 1.28 U.S. Dollars.

a. Given that 1 foot = 0.3048 meter, how many square meters are equivalent to 1 square foot? Round your answer to four decimal places. 

1 square foot = 0.0929  square meter

b. Use the specific 4 decimal place conversion factor that you created in part a to convert the price of Carpet Right's carpet into U.S. Dollars per square foot. Do not round intermediate computations. Round your final answer to two decimal places. 

$ = ?  per square foot. 

c. Which company’s carpet is cheaper? By how many dollars per square foot? 

The cheaper company's carpet costs $  ?  less per square foot than the more expensive company's carpet.

Answer 1

Carpet Right's carpet is £12.99 / square meter.

£12.99/m² × $1.28/£ = $16.6289/m²

$16.6289/m² ÷ (1/.0929) m²/ft² = $1.54/ft²

So the Lowe's price is $4.88 per square foot, and the Carpet Right price is $1.54 per square foot. The Carpet Right price is lower by $3.34 per square foot.