The top of Kevin's dining room table is 4 feet long, and 3 feet wide. Kevin wants to cover the middle of the table with tiles. He plans to leave a 6 inch border around the edge of the table and tile in the center. How many square feet of tile will he need?
so the area of the table to be tiled is
4ft - 2(6inches) by 3ft - 2(6inches)
= 3 ft by 2 ft.
and that area is 6 ft^2
Ah, Kevin and his fancy dining room table! Let's do some calculations and find out how many square feet of tile Mr. Kevin will need.
First, we need to find the dimensions of the tiled area. Since there will be a 6-inch border around the edge of the table, we need to subtract 1 foot from both the length and width of the table.
The tiled area will then be 3 feet long (4 feet - 1 foot) and 2 feet wide (3 feet - 1 foot).
To get the total square footage of the tiled area, we multiply the length by the width:
3 feet * 2 feet = 6 square feet.
Voilà! Mr. Kevin will need 6 square feet of tile to cover the center of his fancy dining room table. Don't forget the border, though - that might require a bit more tile!
To find the area of the table that needs to be tiled, we need to subtract the area of the border from the total area of the table.
The total area of the table is 4 feet x 3 feet = 12 square feet.
To find the area of the border, we need to subtract the length of the border from the length of the table and the width of the border from the width of the table.
Length of the border = 6 inches = 0.5 feet
Width of the border = 6 inches = 0.5 feet
Area of the border = (4 feet - 2*0.5 feet) x (3 feet - 2*0.5 feet) = 3 feet x 2 feet = 6 square feet
Now, we can find the area of the table that needs to be tiled:
Area of table to be tiled = Total area of the table - Area of the border
= 12 square feet - 6 square feet
= 6 square feet
Therefore, Kevin will need 6 square feet of tiles to cover the middle of his dining room table.
To find out how many square feet of tile Kevin will need, we first need to calculate the dimensions of the tileable area in the center of the table.
The length of the table is 4 feet, and Kevin plans to leave a 6-inch (or 0.5 feet) border around the edge. So the length of the tileable area will be 4 - (2 * 0.5) = 3 feet.
Similarly, the width of the tileable area will be 3 - (2 * 0.5) = 2 feet.
Now that we have the dimensions of the tileable area, we can calculate its area by multiplying the length and width:
Area of tileable area = length * width = 3 feet * 2 feet = 6 square feet.
Therefore, Kevin will need 6 square feet of tile to cover the middle of his dining room table.