SOLUTION: The kitchen floor of your home is 12'6" in width and 10'4" in length. You are going to place 5" tiles on the floor. Each tile is 5" on each side. 1.Express the area of the kitc

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: The kitchen floor of your home is 12'6" in width and 10'4" in length. You are going to place 5" tiles on the floor. Each tile is 5" on each side.
1.Express the area of the kitchen floor, in square feet, as an improper fraction.
2.Express the area of each tile in square feet.
3.How many tiles are required to tile the floor? This question is from textbook strategies for problem soving

Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Floor:
12 feet and 6 inches by 10 feet and 4 inches
12 6/12 feet by 10 4/16 feet
12 1/2 feet by 10 1/4 feet
128 1/8 feet
Tiles:
5 feet by 5 feet
25 feet
"x" amount of tiles to tile floor:
25x = 128.125
x = 5.125 or 5 1/8
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