Calculate Price of New Tiles for the Floors of the Lunchroom and Splint Room

This activity involves calculating square footage and the cost of tile needed to tile the floors of 2 rooms in the therapy gym.

Instructions:

1. Measure the square footage of splint room (to the nearest half foot)
2. Measure the square footage of lunch room (to the nearest half foot)
3. Add the total of both rooms
4. Look up the price of tiles on the internet or flyer from Home Depot
5. Calculate the price of tile needed for the floors of both rooms based on the price

Answers

Splint room floor square footage (11.5 x 11) = 126.5 sq ft

The square footage of the installed cabinet in the splint room must be calculated (7 x 1.5) = 10.5 sq ft

Then this installed cabinet square footage must be deducted from the room total (126.5 – 10.5) = 116 sq ft

The total square footage to be covered with tile in the splint room is 116 square feet

Lunch room floor square footage (12 x 11) = 132 sq ft

The square footage of the installed counter in the lunch room must be calculated (8.5 x 2) = 17 sq ft

Then this installed cabinet square footage must be deducted from the room total (132 – 17) = 115 sq ft

The total square footage to be covered with tile in the splint room is 115 square feet

Next the square footage of both rooms should be totaled (116 + 115) = 231 sq ft

Look up the price of tile on the internet (HomeDepot.com) – tile usually comes in boxes of 25

Each tile is 1 square foot ( 1 foot x 1 foot)

Thus a box of 25 tiles is a total of 25 square feet

Then calculate how many boxes of tiles are needed by dividing the room square footage by the box of tiles square footage

(231 / 25) = 9.24 boxes

Thus 10 boxes of tiles are needed

So the total price of this project is (10 boxes x the price of 1 box) = ?