2018 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 9
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Problem 9
Tyler is tiling the floor of his 12 foot by 16 foot living room. He plans to place one-foot by one-foot square tiles to form a border along the edges of the room and to fill in the rest of the floor with two-foot by two-foot square tiles. How many tiles will he use?
Solution
He will place 
tiles around the border. For the inner part of the room, we have 
square feet. Each tile takes up 
square feet, so he will use 
tiles for the inner part of the room. Thus, the answer is 
Solution 2
The area around the border: (12 * 2) + (14 * 2) = 52. The area of tiles around the border: 1 * 1 = 1. Therefore, 52/1 = 52 is the number of tiles around the border.
The inner part will have (12 - 2)(16 - 2) = 140. The area of those tiles are 2 * 2 = 4. 140/4 = 35 is the amount of tiles for the inner part. So, 52 + 35 = 87
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