Quantitative Literacy - Level 5

These tasks require readers to perform multiple operations sequentially, and they must dis-embed the features of the problem from the material provided or rely on background knowledge to determine the quantities or operations needed. The numbers to be operated upon are not adjacent, nor do they appear in the same row and column. Distractors for both requested and given information can be found in the same node as the answer.

The following question has a rated difficulty of 421 on the DOL survey.

Suppose that you want to carpet your living room which is 9 feet by 12 feet, and you purchase DuPont Stainmaster carpet at the sale price. Compute the total cost, excluding taxes and labour, of exactly enough carpet to cover your living room floor.