Mr. Lincoln is building a rectangular play area in the local park. The length of the play area is ninety-seven and one-half feet. The width of the play area is fifty-six feet. To keep children from falling on a hard surface, the play area will be covered with recycled tire rubber. Recycled tire rubber is sold by the square yard. How many square yards of recycled tire rubber will be needed for the play area? If the company will only sell complete square yards of recycled tire rubber, how much should Mr. Lincoln buy?

Answer 1

I am surprised your device does not have a numerical keypad.

length = 97.5 ft = 65/2 yards
width = 56 ft = 56/3 yards

area = (65/2)(56/3) yards^2 = 1820/3 yards^2 or 606 2/3 yards^2
So they have to buy a minimum of 607 square yards of covering

Actually, they will have to buy more than that.
Since the length is 32.5 yards, they will need 33 pieces to fill a row along
the length,
for the width of 18 2/3 yards, they will need 19 pieces along the width
So they need to buy 33*19 or 627 pieces