Home Design Name: __________________________

Design your home in the grid below. You must use the entire grid and each room
must have a label. Your design must include the following rooms:

● Kitchen ● Living Room ● Bathroom ● Bedroom

1 block = 2 feet
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Using the scale below the grid, find the dimensions of each room and the
dimensions of your entire house. Show your work.

1. Kitchen 2. Living Room

3. Bedroom 4. Bathroom

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Using the dimensions you calculated on page 2, find the area of each room in
the house and the total area of the house. Show your work.

1. Kitchen 2. Living Room

3. Bedroom 4. Bathroom

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Find the dimensions of your home using a new scale of 1 block = 4 feet. Show all
work.

1. Kitchen 2. Living Room

3. Bedroom 4. Bathroom

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Reproduce the layout of your home using the scale 1 block = 4 feet.

1 block = 4 feet

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Solve the following problems using the dimensions of your home design. Show
your work.

1. You decide that you want to install hardwood flooring in your Kitchen and
Living Room. If the flooring costs $2.60 per square foot, how much will you
have to spend to buy the new flooring?

2. Your Bathroom needs new tile floors. The tiles that you picked out are
$4.75 per square foot. How much will you have to spend to retile this
room?

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3. Now you want to put carpet in the remaining room in the house. The
carpet costs $3.25 per square foot. What will it cost for you to replace the
flooring in the rest of the house? (Hint: which room still needs new
flooring?)