You’ve arrived at your apartment, but before you can set up your furniture, you need to paint!. The dimensions of the living room are 20ft x 15ft x 8 ft. You need to paint all 4 walls and the ceiling. You will need to paint two coats and each gallon of paint covers 400 square feet. Calculate the total surface area that needs to be painted and how many cans of paint are needed.

Total surface area to be painted: _

Amount of paint cans needed: _

20ft(length) 15ft(width) 8ft(height) *dont paint the floor!

Determine how many paint cans will be needed by using the surface area
*1 gallon = 400 square feet