Last visit was: 23 Apr 2024, 15:57 It is currently 23 Apr 2024, 15:57

Close
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.

Customized
for You

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History

Track
Your Progress

every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance

Practice
Pays

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Close
Request Expert Reply
Confirm Cancel
SORT BY:
Kudos
Tags:
Show Tags
Hide Tags
Math Expert
Joined: 02 Sep 2009
Posts: 92883
Own Kudos [?]: 618586 [2]
Given Kudos: 81563
Send PM
Intern
Intern
Joined: 11 Sep 2013
Posts: 18
Own Kudos [?]: 19 [1]
Given Kudos: 295
Schools: CBS '19
Send PM
Senior SC Moderator
Joined: 22 May 2016
Posts: 5330
Own Kudos [?]: 35483 [0]
Given Kudos: 9464
Send PM
Senior PS Moderator
Joined: 26 Feb 2016
Posts: 2873
Own Kudos [?]: 5204 [0]
Given Kudos: 47
Location: India
GPA: 3.12
Send PM
How many tiles of the size and shape shown above are needed to complet [#permalink]


From the figure drawn for a tile, we can deduce that 2 such tiles will cover an area of 6 ft.
Since we need to cover a rectangular floor measuring 30 ft by 20 ft(which is 600ft),
we would need 100 such sets.

Therefore, we need exactly 200 tiles to cover the rectangular floor(Option C)
Current Student
Joined: 02 Jul 2017
Posts: 235
Own Kudos [?]: 291 [0]
Given Kudos: 70
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Technology
GMAT 1: 730 Q50 V38
Send PM
Re: How many tiles of the size and shape shown above are needed to complet [#permalink]
We have to find out for given tile shape, how many tiles we can fit in a rectangular floor of 30feet * 20 feet.

If we look at the tile image, we can see that by combining 2 tiles ( tile image + inverting the image) a rectangle of size 3*2 can be formed (Check the attached figure)
So we can combine 2 tiles, form a rectangle and than place it in rectangular floor

Rectangular tile size = 2*3 = 6
Area of rectangular floor = 30*20 = 600

No. of rectangular tiles that can be used on floor = 600/6 = 100

So number of give tiles = 2* number of rectangular tiles = 2* 100 = 200

Answer: C
Attachments

Tile combine.png
Tile combine.png [ 2.43 KiB | Viewed 3259 times ]

Manager
Manager
Joined: 01 Feb 2017
Posts: 246
Own Kudos [?]: 345 [0]
Given Kudos: 148
Send PM
Re: How many tiles of the size and shape shown above are needed to complet [#permalink]
We have to combine two L-shaped tiles to form one composite unit of size 3ft x 2ft.

Now, we need 100 composite units to cover a floor of dimensions 30ft x 20ft : 10 units each along length and width respectively.

100 Composite units amount to 200 L-shaped tiles.

Hence, Answer C.

Posted from my mobile device
GMAT Club Bot
Re: How many tiles of the size and shape shown above are needed to complet [#permalink]
Moderators:
Math Expert
92883 posts
Senior Moderator - Masters Forum
3137 posts

Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group | Emoji artwork provided by EmojiOne