A square tile has a width of 1/4 foot. How many tiles will fit end-to-end along a 4 foot wall?

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Answer 1

total length of wall / width of square = number of square tiles

4 / (1/4) = 16

Answer 2

Hello Ella,

You will need 4 tiles across for every 1 foot of wall. Since you have 4 feet of wall, that is 4 X 4 = 16 tiles across to cover the length of the wall.

Now I have a question back for you, to tease your brain a bit...

What if it was not just a wall? What if it was a 4 foot by 4 foot ROOM, that you needed to fully tile- for instance if you did home construction.

How many tiles do you think you would need then?

Have fun. :)