Question

Joe is placing tile in a small rectangular room. The room measures 8 feet by 5.5 feet. If one square foot tiles are sold in packages of 12, how many packages will he need?

Answer 1

4

Explanation:

The area, a of the room is 8* 5.5

a = 44 sqaure feet

one square foot of tiles are sold in packages of 12

To get the number of packages needed, simply divide the area of the room by 12

This gives:

44/12 = 4

= 3.67 round up to the nearest whole number

= 4