Description
Estimate how many books can be shelved in a college library with 3500 square meters of floor space. Assume 8 shelves high, having books on both sides, with corridors 1.5 m wide. Assume books are about the size of a normal textbook (2 inches thick), on average?
Explanation & Answer
In order to solve this you need to clarify how wide the shelves are, otherwise there is no way to answer this.