Chapter 4.5, Problem 55ES

Josef Jones is painting the walls of a room. The walls have a total area of $546$ square feet. A quart of paint covers $52$ square feet. If he must buy paint in whole quarts, how quarts does he need?

Start the solution:

1. UNDERSTANS the problem. Reread it as many times as needed.

2. TRANSLATE into an equation. (Fill in the blanks.)

   $\begin{array}{l}\text{Number}\text{is}\text{square}\text{divided}\text{square}\text{feet}\\ \text{of}\text{quarts}\text{feet}\text{by}\text{per}\text{quart}\\ \downarrow \downarrow \downarrow \downarrow \downarrow \\ \text{number}\text{of}\text{=}\text{\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_}\text{÷}\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\\ \text{quarts}\end{array}$

3. SOLVE. Don’t forget to round up quotient.

4. INTERPRET.