Question

You work for a company that makes tiles for patios. A customer sent you the following picture of his patio. He said the patio is made up of the same tiles, positioned vertically and horizontally. He says he wants to replace 3 tiles that are cracked. He didn’t tell you the dimensions of the tile itself but did tell you that the width of the patio was 8 feet. Determine the dimensions of a tile in the patio.

Answer 1

Answer:3 by 1

Explanation:

okay so I'll say the long side of a tile as x

the short side of a tile as y

look at the short side of the big patio first, it's made up of 2 big and 2 small

so 2x+2y=8 or x+y=8 so two added together is 8. So one possibility is 3 and 1 because (3+1)2 = 9