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Jenny has 50 square tiles. She arranges the tiles into a rectangular army of 4 rows. How many tiles are leftover?

User Kjfletch
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This is what it would look like with 4 rows:

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That is 4 rows by 12 columns, making 48 tiles.

That means there are 2 tiles leftover.
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