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Given: a tabletop that is a rectangle 24 in long and 18 in wide.
Find: (a) the area of the tabletop in square centimeters
(b) The designer wants to cover the tabletop with tiles. She doesn't have any to begin with and she can't buy partial bags of tiles. Each bag of tiles covers 260 cm². number of bags of tiles does the designer need to buy to completely cover the tabletop
(c)If each bag of tiles costs $3.76, how much will she need to spend on tiles.
Explanation: (a)
[tex]1\text{ inch= 2.54cm}[/tex]so the length of the tabletop in cm will be
[tex]24\times2.54=60.96cm[/tex]and the breadth of the tabletop in cm will be
[tex]18\times2.54=45.72cm[/tex]the area of the tabletop will be
[tex]\begin{gathered} l\times b \\ =60.96\times45.72 \\ =2787.09cm^2 \end{gathered}[/tex](b) The designer wants to cover the tabletop with tiles and she can't buy partial bags of tiles. Each bag of tiles covers 260 cm² so the numbe rof bags designer needs to buy to cover the tabletop is
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{2787.09}{260} \\ =10.71 \end{gathered}[/tex]it means that designer needs to buy 11 bags of tiles to cover the tabletop.
(c) If each bag of tiles costs $3.76.the the total cost will be equal to
[tex]3.76\times11=41.36\text{ \$}[/tex]