Word problems about covering a floor

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A room is 8 feet by 8 feet. Carpet costs $4 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
2
A room is 3 feet by 8 feet. Carpet costs $3 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
3
A room is 8 feet by 5 feet. Carpet costs $7 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
4
A room is 4 feet by 2 feet. Carpet costs $8 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
5
A room is 5 feet by 2 feet. Carpet costs $3 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
6
A room is 6 feet by 2 feet. Carpet costs $8 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
7
A room is 4 feet by 6 feet. Carpet costs $6 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
8
A room is 4 feet by 8 feet. Carpet costs $6 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
9
A room is 4 feet by 8 feet. Carpet costs $3 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
10
A room is 3 feet by 3 feet. Carpet costs $5 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
11
A room is 8 feet by 5 feet. Carpet costs $9 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
12
A room is 7 feet by 4 feet. Carpet costs $6 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
13
A room is 7 feet by 5 feet. Carpet costs $3 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
14
A room is 8 feet by 8 feet. Carpet costs $7 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
15
A room is 4 feet by 5 feet. Carpet costs $8 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
16
A room is 6 feet by 7 feet. Carpet costs $9 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
17
A room is 8 feet by 6 feet. Carpet costs $5 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
18
A room is 4 feet by 7 feet. Carpet costs $3 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
19
A room is 4 feet by 7 feet. Carpet costs $7 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?
20
A room is 4 feet by 5 feet. Carpet costs $2 a square foot. What does it cost to carpet the room, in dollars?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 9.
Every problem in it will take two steps.
A careful solution takes 3 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: that is the area in square feet; each of them costs more than a dollar.
Answers are an amount with two decimal places.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 173 different ones, 72% — so a sheet of 20 is a new sheet almost every time.

The same skill, harder or easier

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