Answer:
768 tiles would be required to tile the floor.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let's first calculate the number of square meters that the rectangular floor represents, by using the formula for the area of a rectangle (length x width):
Floor area = 8 m x 6 m = 48 [tex]m^2[/tex]
Next, let's convert the side of the square tiles into meters in order to keep the same units in both (floor area an tile area):
25 cm = 0.25 m
Then the are of a square tile can be obtained by the formula 0.25 m x 0.25 m = 0.0625 [tex]m^2[/tex]
Now to find the number of tiles needed, we perform the division of the total floor area to be covered divided by the area covered by a single tile:
Number of tiles needed: 48 [tex]m^2[/tex] / 0.0625 [tex]m^2[/tex] = 768 tiles
