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Chapter 2: Q. 239 (page 147)

If you need to put tile on your kitchen floor, do you need to know the perimeter or the area of the kitchen? Explain your reasoning.

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We want to put tile on our kitchen floor, we need to know the area of kitchen not perimeter of kitchen.

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Step 1.  Given Data

you need to put tile on your kitchen floor.

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Step 2.  To find

we want to put tile on our kitchen floor, we need to know perimeter or area of kitchen.

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Step 3.  Explanation

if we want to put tile on our kitchen floor, we need to know area of kitchen because if we know the area of kitchen then we simply calculated the number of tiles. Thus we need to know the area of kitchen.

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