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   Ethan Flare New Member

   Sean is helping his dad build a tiled walkway in their backyard. The walkway will be 60 feet long and 2 feet wide. The local hardware store sells tiles which are 2 by 2 feet and come in boxes of 6.
   
   There isn't a calculator for Rational Word Problems.

    

   Ethan Flare, May 9, 2017

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   math_celebrity Administrator Staff Member

   I assume you want to know how many tiles or how many boxes of tile they need? I'll do both:
   
   Since each tile covers the full 2 foot width of the walkway, we need to see how many tiles length wise we need.
   60/2 = 30 tiles needed to cover the full walkway.
   
   Now, each box contains 6 tiles, which means we need 30 tiles/6 tiles per box = 5 boxes of tiles

    

   math_celebrity, May 11, 2017

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   Ethan Flare New Member

   Ah! Thanks!

    

   Ethan Flare, May 12, 2017

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