Question

The floor of the school music room is being tiled. The room is shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram has a base of 25 feet and a height of 11 feet. Each package of tile will cover 5 square feet. How many packages of tile will be needed to tile the music room floor? A=bh *

Answer 1

Number of tile package need = 55 package of tile

Explanation:

Given:

Base of parallelogram = 25 feet

Height of parallelogram = 11 feet

Each package of tile cover = 5 square feet

Find;

Number of tile package need

Computation:

Area of parallelogram = Base of parallelogram x Height of parallelogram

Area of parallelogram = 25 x 11

Area of parallelogram = 275 square feet

Number of tile package need = Area of parallelogram / Each package of tile cover

Number of tile package need = 275 / 5

Number of tile package need = 55 package of tile