Problem:
How many square yards of carpet are required to cover a rectangular floor that is feet long and feet wide? (There are feet in a yard.)
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Solution:
The floor is yards long and yards wide, so it will take square yards of carpet to cover it.
The area of the floor is square feet. There are square feet in a square yard, so the number of square yards required is .
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