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10 Apr 2018, 06:39
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A rectangular wall area is tiled with 9-inch-by-9-inch decorative square tiles. What is the perimeter of the wall area?
(1) It takes 48 of the square tiles to cover the wall area.
(2) The number of tiles along each of the horizontal boundaries of the wall area is three times the number of tiles along each of the vertical boundaries of the wall area.
(1) It takes 48 of the square tiles to cover the wall area.
(2) The number of tiles along each of the horizontal boundaries of the wall area is three times the number of tiles along each of the vertical boundaries of the wall area.
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10 Apr 2018, 11:02
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Let there be 'x' tiles horizontally in each row and 'y' tiles vertically in each column. Then the total number of tiles = x*y.
And perimeter of rectangular wall = 2*(length + width). Since each tile is of 9 inch by 9 inch dimension, perimeter of wall = 2*(9x + 9y) or 18*(x+y).
We need the value of (x+y) to answer this question.
Statement 1:
Total tiles = x*y = 48. But this is not sufficient to find x+y. Because we could have x=8, y=6 or we could have x=12, y=4. These will give different answers to x+y, and thus different perimeters.
Statement 2:
x = 3*y, so perimeter of wall = 18*(3y+y) = 18*4y. But still we need 'y' which we dont have here. Not sufficient.
Combining the statements:
x*y = 48 and x = 3y. So 3y*y = 48 or 3*y^2 = 48 or y^2 = 16 or y=4. Perimeter of wall = 18*4*4. Sufficient.
Hence C answer
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