Practice question · Estimate
A wall of 18 square metres is to be painted in buon fresco by a painter who has been averaging 1.2 square metres a day. How many days of plastering and painting does that imply?
Estimate on a scale from 0 days (0) to 40 days (40).
Hints
- Divide the area by the daily rate.
- Eighteen divided by 1.2.
Show the answer
15 (answers within ±2 count)
Why
15 days, and therefore fifteen joins to place. The arithmetic is the reason a fresco is designed around its seams from the start: the cartoon has to be divided into areas that can each be finished before the plaster sets, and the divisions have to fall where a contour will hide them.
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