Question 729580: find the number of tiles required if the floor area is 17.5 m square and tile area is 625 cm square Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! We want both measurements in the same units
There are 100 centimeters in a length of 1 meter, so the conversion for square meters to square centimeters goes like this:
So
To tile a surface with an area of
using tiles with a surface area of per tile, we need tiles.
If the home improvement store would lend you a calculator, it is easy to do that division. Or maybe you brought a calculator, or there is a calculator function in your cell phone. Or maybe you would enjoy doing that calculation with pencil and paper.
An easier calculation:
We are using tiles such that each has a surface area of
How many of those tiles do we need per of floor?
At tiles per we will need tiles.
That is how I could calculate it in my head.
