SOLUTION: The Mazurskys decide to retile their mud room in 16� by 16� tiles. If their mudroom is 3�6� by 10�, how many tiles will they need to purchase? You can cut tiles, but you do not wan

Question 1003521: The Mazurskys decide to retile their mud room in 16� by 16� tiles. If their mudroom is 3�6� by 10�, how many tiles will they need to purchase? You can cut tiles, but you do not want to glue leftover pieces of tiles together to cover any part of the floor.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
In inches, one wall of the mudroom measures

in
The other wall measures
in
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If neither of the adjacent walls is exactly
divisible by , then tiles will have to be cut
on both of adjacent walls
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and

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You end up needing tiles
of these tiles do not need to be cut
and of them will have to cut
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Of the that need cutting, 2 of them get
in cut off, 7 of them get in
cut off, and there is 1 corner tile that gets
cut off one edge and in
cut off the adjacent edge
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It really helps to draw a picture to see this
So, you need 24 tiles
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