Leisha is retiling a hallway in her house with linoleum squares. The area she is tiling measures 60 inches by 132 inches. Each s

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Shalnov [3]

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Leisha is retiling a hallway in her house with linoleum squares. The area she is tiling measures 60 inches by 132 inches. Each s

quare measures 8.0 inches by 8.0 inches. How many whole tiles should Leisha buy

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Minchanka [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-13T18:58:47+03:00

Answer:

124

Step-by-step explanation:

Multiply 60 by 132. You get 7920.

Now multiply 8 by 8. You get 64.

Divide 7920 by 64. You get 123.75.

SInce the question asks for <em>whole tiles</em> we can't buy 0.75 of a tile, so she could just get one more to fill in that 0.75. That would be 124.