The floor of the school art closet is be tiled. The closet shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram has a base of 16.5 feet and a height of 6 feet. Each package of the tile will cover 5 square feet. How many packages of tile will be needed to tile the music room floor?

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14 April, 12:17

The floor of the school art closet is be tiled. The closet shaped like a parallelogram. The parallelogram has a base of 16.5 feet and a height of 6 feet. Each package of the tile will cover 5 square feet. How many packages of tile will be needed to tile the music room floor?

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Zion Ritter · Answer 1

The area of the parallelogram is given by:

A = b * h

Where,

b: base

h: height

Substituting values we have:

A = (16.5) * (6)

A = 99 feet ^ 2

The number of packages will be:

N = 99/5

N = 19.8

Rounding:

N = 20

Answer:

It will be needed 20 packages of tile to tile the music room floor