How do you do equations involving factored expressions

Problem melissa is 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 boxes of 12. how many boxes of tiles do they need?

Gregory draws a scale drawing of his room. the scale that he uses is 1 cm : 4 ft. on his drawing, the room is 3 centimeters long. which equation can be used to find the actual length of gregory's room?

Determine the standard form of the equation of the line that passes through (-2,0) and (8,-5)