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Can someone please help me solve this word problem. We are practicing order of operations.
Mrs. Thompson is putting new tile on her bathroom floor. Each tile measures 2 inces on each side. The bathroom floor is 3 feet long and 2 feet wide. How many tiles will she use to cover the entire floor?
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3 feet long = 36 inches, so the bathroom floor width equals:
36 inches / 2 inches per side per tile = 18 tiles wide. Put that amount aside for now, ok?
Next, the floor is 2 feet wide.
24 inches wide divided by 2 inches per side per tile = 12 tiles wide.
So for the bathroom floor we now have:
18 tiles wide and 12 tiles long. Multiply that out for your answer
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That helped! I understand. Thank you
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