By the yard or metre. A roll of carpet is a certain width, maybe 3metres and you buy it by the metre length or yard length. So if you buy 12 metres of carpet you get a piece 3m X 12m.
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The answer to the riddle "I am bought by the yard but worn by the foot" is the carpet.
carpet or other flooring
$53.91 per square yard. That's pretty expensive carpet...........
1 yard = 3 foot so 16 foot by 18 foot = 51/3 x 6 yard carpet 51/3 x 6 = 32 square yards of carpet. At 0.65 per square yard this is 0.65 x 20.80 per square yard.
cost of per square yard will be 468.00.