Failing at basic maths

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regulus

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Quick question just to confirm I'm actually still bad a simple math (yet strangely better at more complicated stuff)

My garage is 33m2 in total. I want to buy rubber carpet tiles for it. The measure half a square meter each. I need 66 of them right? Got an uncomfortable feeling I'm missing something here.
 
So the tiles are about 22cm by 22cm?

This is something that a lot struggle with as it's not particularly clear.

Have you measured the length and width of the room to get your measurement? As that would give you a room that is equivalent to 33 squares that measure 1m*1m.

That means you'd need over 20 tiles to cover each of those metres squared.

1m*1m contains 10,000 1cm*1cm squares.

Whereas a metre square in area is about 31.5cm*31.5cm which is about 1000 1cm*1cm squares in total.
 
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They more than likely are square, plus it helps with visualisation. If they are 22cm*22cm then 4.5 of them in a line would cover a space of 1m*0.22m if their surface area is 0.5m.
 
I would have thought their dimensions would be 0.5m by 0.5m and thus have an area of 0.25 m2. If their area is indeed 0.5 m2 they will have dimensions of 0.7 something by 0.7 something which seems a bit odd.
 
The problem is how some companies list them, that's why the actual dimensions are crucial here, as it'll be the difference between 750~ carpet tiles and 150~

Either way it's not 66 :p
 
We need to know the length and width of the floor, just stating the m2 area is unhelpful as it doesn't define the shape.
Then all you need is the length and width of the floor tiles and it's very very basic maths to work out how many you will need, I cannot believe you can't work this out!!!
(ie How many tiles needed to complete a row across the width X How many tiles needed to complete a row across the length)
 
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