SOLUTION: How many tiles are required to cover a floor of length 6 m and breadth 4 m if the area covered by each tiles is 400 sq. Cm?

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Question 1006867: How many tiles are required to cover a floor of length 6 m and breadth 4 m if the area covered by each tiles is 400 sq. Cm?
Answer by fractalier(6550) About Me  (Show Source):
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We can approach this a couple of ways...
If the floor is 6 m by 4 m, then it is 600 cm by 400 cm...
The are is then
A = LW = 600 * 400 = 240000 cm^2
If we divide that by 400, we get
240000 / 400 = 600 tiles