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[swerve78]

Sam has no more than $250 to spend on ceramic tile for his foyer. The rectangle in his foyer is 5ft by 8ft what can he spend per square foot on ceramic tile?

 

[Unknown008]

Sam has no more than $250 to spend on ceramic tile for his foyer. The rectangle in his foyer is 5ft by 8ft what can he spend per square foot on ceramic tile?

Find the area of the foyer.

You are asked to find the amount to spend per square foot and he has $250 to spend on that.

Area you got -> $250
1 ft^2 -> $ ?

Can you use proportions to get the answer?

 

[swerve78]

Im really confused on what im supposed to do on this problem

 

[Unknown008]

Sam here has a rectangular foyer which he wants to put tiles on.

He has only $250 to spend to tiling the foyer. Now, each tile he will put has an area of 1 ft^2 (that is it's a square with sides 1 ft).

Can you work out how many tiles will be in the foyer? To determine that, you divide the area of the foyer by the area of one tile. Once you have the number of tiles, you know how much money the total number of tiles will cost, that is $250.

Can you first find out the number of tiles required?

 

[swerve78]

is the area supposed to be the 5ft by 8 ft I am not sure what I am suppose to be dividing by

 

[Unknown008]

Remember:

\(\displaystyle Area = Length \times Width\)

Do this first.

 

[swerve78]

so 40

 

[Unknown008]

Good, the area of the foyer is 40 ft^2.

Sam has to spend $250 on 40 ft^2.

How much does he spend on 1 ft^2?


I could give this as example:

40 apples cost $250 (expensive!!! )

How much does one apple cost?

Just replace apples by ft^2 and that's the same exact thing!

 

[swerve78]

$6.25

 

[Unknown008]

$6.25

Yes yes, that's the answer! Well done

 

[swerve78]

Thank you very much I appreciate it.

 

[Unknown008]

You're welcome ^_^