Homework Help: Math Word Problem

Posted by Shane on Friday, November 16, 2012 at 9:16am.

Ron is tiling a countertop. He needs to place 54 square tiles in each of 8 rows to cover the counter. He wants to randomly place 8 groups of four blue tiles each and have the rest of the tiles in white. How many white tiles will Ron need?

Math Word Problem - Steve, Friday, November 16, 2012 at 10:22am
54 rows of 8 use 432 white tiles
8 groups of 4 blue tiles use 32 tiles

that leaves 432-32 = 400 white tiles

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