Question

Mr Gomez wants to put a ceramic Tile border along for all four sides of his kitchen wall mr. Gomez has measured and knows he needs enough tiles to make three rows with 63 tiles in each row on each of his for how many tiles is mr. Goma's need to make the border tiles are sold in boxes with 14 tiles in each box how many boxes of tile does mr. Gomez need to buy show all your mathematical thinking please explain step by step

Answer 1

Answer:

14 boxes

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that he needs 3 rows with 63 tiles per row.

Hence total number of tiles needed:

= 3 rows x 63 tiles per row

= 189 tiles

we are also given that tiles come in boxes of 14 tiles.

Hence the number of boxes of tiles needed,

= 189 tiles ÷ 14 tiles per box

= 13.5 boxes

but because he cannot just buy 0.5 of a box (i.e he needs to buy whole boxes), we must round this number up to the next whole box

hence

13.5 boxes rounded up to next whole box = 14 boxes.