Question

A family decides to put tiles in the entryway of their home. The entryway has an area of 7 square meters. If each tile is 5 centimeters by 5 centimeters, how many tiles will it take to cover the entryway?

It will take ______ tiles to cover the entryway.​

Answer 1

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Answer:

2800 tiles

Explanation:

Each tile has an area of (0.05 m)² = 0.0025 m². Then the number of tiles required to cover 7 square meters is ...

(7 m²)/(0.0025 m²/tile) = 2800 tiles

It will take 2800 tiles to cover the entryway.