Question

The floor of the school art closet is being tiled. The closet is shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram has a base of 17.5 feet and a height of 6 feet. Each package of tile will cover 5 square feet. How many packages of tile will be needed to tile the art closet floor?

Answer 1

21 packages

Explanation:

We need to identify the area of the parallelogram. Given that:

• The base of 17.5 feet

• The height of 6 feet

=> S = bh = 17.5 x 6 = 105 ft²

Area covered by 1 package of tile = 5 ft²

So the number of packages of tile will be needed to tile the art closet floor:

The area of the parallelogram / Area covered by 1 package of tile

`(105)/(5)` = 21 packages