You want to lay tile in a room of your house. the room is 12 feet by 8 feet. what is the side measure of the largest square tile that you can use to cover the whole floor so there is no overlap or cutting?

If we want to use a square tile of side , we have to make sure that divides both 12 and 8.

The divisors of 8 are 1, 2, 4 and 8.

The divisors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12.

So, the only common divisors are 1, 2 and 4.

Since we want the largest square tile, we choose the one with side 4.

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the answer would be 0.54