Question

Brian is creating a collage on a piece of cardboard that has an area of 110r3 square centimeters. The collage is covered entirely by pieces of paper that do not overlap. Each piece has an area of the square root of r to the fifth power square centimeters. Use the given information to determine an expression for the total number of pieces of paper used.

Answer 1

Suppose your cardboard is a square as shown in the pictures. Suppose each paper making up the collage is a smaller square inside the cardboard which fills up the entire cardboard. What is the relation you can see between the cardboard and each piece of paper?