Question

A room was lined up with 144 floor tiles, how many tiles are on each of the walls?

Answer 1

Do we know the shape of the room?

Answer 2

square room

Answer 3

So if I have a square room with sides of length \(s\), how do I find the area of the room?

Answer 4

The teacher gave an answer of 12, but not sure how she got to that answer. Can someone pls. explain?

Answer 5

So if you have a square with sides of a given length, the area is given by multiplying that length by itself.

So a square with sides of length 4 has an area of 4 x 4 = 16.

In this case, we have an area of 144, and we know that it's a square. The question is, what number, when multiplied by itself, gives you 144.

Answer 6

Thank you shadowfriend. got it!

Answer 7

Cool!