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The floor of the school art closet is be tiled. The closet shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram has a base of 16.5 feet and a height of 6 feet. Each package of the tile will cover 5 square feet. How many packages of tile will be needed to tile the music room floor?

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The area of the parallelogram is given by:
A = b * h
Where,
b: base
h: height
Substituting values we have:
A = (16.5) * (6)
A = 99 feet ^ 2
The number of packages will be:
N = 99/5
N = 19.8
Rounding:
N = 20
Answer:
It will be needed 20 packages of tile to tile the music room floor
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