document.write( "Question 1136664: A tile manufacturer wants to make parallelogram-shaped tiles with the dimensions 4 in. by 6 in. What is the maximum number of such tiles that can be cut from a 12 in. by 40 in. slab of clay? I have tried everything I can think of including graph paper and I still do not understand how the answer become 36 tiles. I can get 18 whole tiles with a lot of scrap left over.
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Algebra.Com's Answer #754492 by ikleyn(52781) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "Try PARALLELOGRAMS with the acute angle of 30 degrees between the sides of 4 in and 6 in.\r\n" );
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document.write( "PARALLELOGRAMS, not rectangles (!)\r\n" );
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document.write( "Did you try it ?\r\n" );
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document.write( "I myself didn't try to do it, but I think that the KEY is to use such PARALLELOGRAMS.\r\n" );
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