Floor irregularities Question

I presume the answer has something to do with time

Its to do with the amount of product needed, not the square meterage.
There is a catch though, which I will explain.

OK here goes.

2 tile sizes, 40cm2 and 10 cm2

Take 4 tiles, each 40cm x 40cm. = 80cms

Lay them in a Square pattern 2 x 2

Total = 4 tiles.

Now, put a 15 cm wide plate in the middle of them, exactly where the tiles all intersect. You will need to lay tiles around the plate. Obviously you will need to cut them.
How many tiles do you need to complete the job?

Still four.
Now I want you to use 10mm x 10mm tiles.
Same sized area, namely 80cms by 80cms.
You will need 8 x 8 correct?
Not necessarily.
Because you are wasting less tile area as the tiles are smaller.
BUT, you might use 63 tiles, not 64 (8*8). So what is the difference then? 1 tile?

Floor products are not liquid (except concrete). So you cannot mix up the scraps of floor tiles to make a whole tile again.

You need the same coverage of tiles, and you will have waste. But unless you can take out a whole square metre, you need to ignore the plate, as you will need parts of a square metre to go around ithe plate.

I will probalbly look at this in the morning, and retype it wojne I can see that I have confused everyone inclusing myself.

Hope I have put you on the right track.

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Thanks Adrian, I could only have a glance, looks goods to me I'll try make sense of it later after school! Cheers.

Yep, and now his assignment is almost done and he did not even have to think