Joy is a house painter. She will be painting 5 rooms with a total of 1964 square feet of wall space. She is deciding between two methods of painting.
The first method uses one coat of primer and then one coat of paint and will take about 30 hours. The other method uses one coat of a special
paint that doesn't need primer and will take about 15 hours.
• Primer costs $8.99 per gallon and covers 200 square feet per gallon.
• Paint costs $15.99 per gallon and covers 400 square feet per gallon.
Special paint costs $26.99 per gallon and covers 400 square feet per gallon.