You work for a tile manufacturing compa ny. The company has overstocked a certain set of tiles. There are three different tiles in this particular
set. One is a large square tile, the second is a small square til e and the third
is a rectangle. The length of the rectangle is the same length as one side of
the large square. The width of the rectangle is the same size as one side of
the small square. This happens to work out to be good news.
A set of these tiles can be arranged into rectangular configur ations to create nice tile patterns.
Find all the rectangular configurations that can be made usi ng 6 large
squares and 4 small squares along with only 2 rectangles.
How many rectangles are needed to make a rectangular conf iguration?
Explain how you know?
Illustrate all the different configurations that can be created?
Explain how you know that you have found all possible recta ngular configurations?