Question

You want to make a pattern similar to the one seen below for your kitchen backsplash. Each tile is a parallelogram. The length of each tile is 6 inches and the height is 1 inch. Answer the following questions.*What is the area that will be covered by each tile?*If you need to cover 1,728 square inches, how many tiles do you need to purchase?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation

Since the tile is of the shape of a parallelogram then the total area covered by each tile will simply be

`length* breadth=1in*6in=6in^2`

Therefore, the area covered by each tile will be 6 square inches

Part B

If we need to cover 1,728 square inches, then the number of tiles needed will be

`(1728)/(6)=288\text{ tiles}`

Thus, we will need 288 tiles