The area of the floor in a rectangular kitchen is 209,196 square centimeters. The area of each square tile is 36 square centimeters. How many square tiles are needed to tile the kitchen floor?
1 Answer
Explanation:
We can think of the kitchen floor as tiled by
Now we want to tile the floor with square tiles that are made of
To do this, we can build groups of
So we need
Depending on the length of the sides of the rectangular area, we could need to cut some (in some cases all) square tiles, in order to perfectly fit the rectangular area.