Question

You need to tile 17 kitchen floors in a new apartment building each floor needs 309 tiles how many tiles will you need for all the floors

And explain

Answer 1

The answer is 5253

Explanation:

We will use the unitary method

Make two columns one for kitchen floors and one for tiles

In the first row you will put 1 kitchen floor and 309 tiles

In the second row you will put 17 kitchen floors and x tiles

Then crossmultiply and 17x309 is equal to 5253

Answer 2

You will need 5,253 tiles.

Explanation:

17 kitchen floors x 309 tiles for each floor = 5,253 tiles total