COSTING COVING IN CENTIMETRES AND
METRES
Jean and David want to put coving in their front room, back room and
kitchen.
1)
Work out how many metres of coving they need for each room:
You may need to work out some of the missing measurements.
Front room
Back room and kitchen
Altogether
2) Coving costs £7.15 for a 3 metre strip of coving.
How much will they spend on coving? (Don’t forget to round
off.)
3) Extra stong glue costs £5.35 per tube. Each tube will put up 11
metres of coving.
How many tubes will you need?
How much will it cost?
4) What is the total cost for coving and glue?
Measurement
Kitchen
120cm
6.5m
90cm
97cm
Back room
187cm
97cm
3m
87cm
1.12m
Front room
4.2m
90cm
92cm
40cm
1.12m
Measurement
Answers
Costing Coving
1)
Front room
Back room/kitchen
Altogether
16.94 m
20.8 m
37.74 m
2)
37.74 ÷ 3m = 12.58 strips of coving
so they will need 13 strips of coving:
£7.15 x
13
21.45
71.50
£92.95 spent on coving
3)
They will need 4 tubes of glue
4 x £5.35 = £21.40 spent on glue
4)
£114.35 spent altogether