The area of a closet floor is 12 square feet. Kim will be placing 1/3 square foot carpet tiles on the entire floor. How many carpet tiles will Mario use? Please help me!!

i beleive the answer is 36

Step-by-step explanation: because i did 12 times 1 third so if my logic is put it should equal that

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step-by-step explanation:

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call the larger triangle abc

then the smaller triangle cde is similar to abc (all angles are equal, aaa).  

ab is the side that is 36, and we wish to find de, the side corresponding to ab

area_cde = area_abc - area_cde --> area_abc / area_cde = 2

let x=length of de

ratio of areas = (ratio of sides)^2

+2+=+%2836%2fx%29%5e2+

+2+=+1296%2fx%5e2+

++x%5e2+=+1296%2f2+=+648+

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