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• The floor in a computer lab has a width of 6x – 9 and a length of 6x + 9. Find the area of the floor. Each tile that will cover the floor has an area of 24x2- 12x – 36. Divide the two areas and tell how many tiles will be needed to cover the floor?

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Answer: The area of the floor can be found by multiplying the width and the length.

Area of the floor = (6x - 9)(6x + 9) = 36x^2 - 63x - 81

The area of each tile can be found by evaluating the expression 24x^2 - 12x - 36.

Area of each tile = 24x^2 - 12x - 36

To find out how many tiles are needed to cover the floor we need to divide the area of the floor by the area of each tile.

Number of tiles needed = (36x^2 - 63x - 81) / (24x^2 - 12x - 36)

The division is simplified by canceling out common factors between the numerator and denominator, the number of tiles is a fraction that can't be simplified any further.

So the answer is (36x^2 - 63x - 81) / (24x^2 - 12x - 36) tiles are needed to cover the floor.

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