Question

A rectangular floor of area 21.6 m2 is going to be tiled. Each tile is rectangular, and has an area of 288 cm2. An exact number of tiles can be put into the space. How many tiles will be needed?

Answer 1

Area of Floor = 21.6.m²

Area of tile = 288 cm² = 0.0288 m²

No. of tiles = Area of floor/ area of tile

= 21.6/0.0288

= 750

750 tiles can be put into the space