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Melissa is helping her dad build a walkway in their backyard. The walkway will be 54 feet long and 1.5 feet wide. The local hardware store sells tiles which are 1.5 by 1.5 feet and come in a box of 12
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I am assuming we need to find the number of tile boxes needed to build the walkway .
Let 'x' represent the number of boxes needed.
The area that the tiles per box comer is: 12*1.5*1.5
x*12*1.5*1.5 >= 54*1.5
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x >= 3
3 boxes of tiles are needed to build the walkway.