Posted by sahar on Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 8:01am.
You need to provide more than one linear dimension for the room. Is the room square or rectangular? Is the 6.25 m number supposed to be SQUARE meters? If so, you should so designate.
Its rectangular room of 6.25m by 4.85m
The distance between opposite sides of the hexagons will be 20sqrt3 = 34.64 cm.
If hexagon edges are parallel to the long wall, you need 4.85/0.3464 = 14 tiles along the short wall. Along the long wall, adjacent pairs take up 0.60 m, so you need 6.25/0.60 = 10.42 pairs or 21 staggered rows. Ten of those rows will require half-hexagons at the ends, but you can use both halves of a cut one.
I claim the answer is 21x14 = 294 tiles. See what you get.
If you just divided the area of the room by the area of each tile, you would get 292, but that would assume no pieces wasted. I would order 300 times to be safe.
Related Questions
Geometry - You are planning to use a ceramic tile design in your new bathroom. ...
geometry - You are planning to use a ceramic tile design in your new bathroom. ...
math - Emma is installing a new tile floor. Each tile measures 12 inches by 12 ...
math - Emma is installing a new tile floor. Each tile measures 12 inches by 12 ...
geometry - Emma is installing a new tile floor. Each tile measures 12 inches by ...
Geometry - One hundred tiles of a certain size are needed to pave a floor. If a ...
Algebra - Jim is installing ceramic tile behind his kitchen sink. Each tile is a...
math-Tiling a room - How much does it cost to tile a room that is 420 sqft if ...
maths - what will be the total cost of creating a 1-foot border of tiles along ...
math 6 grade - howard and claudi are placing square carpeting tiles in a wide ...
For Further Reading
