Any 1 to work this out for me

[laughalot01]

60 sounds alot for the space god im puzzled now

[truconstruct]

Try 52..................................

[Grandad.Malky]

60 sounds alot for the space god im puzzled now

 

60.3 acctually

[laughalot01]

52 still seems too many for the space im gonna have to get the gardener that does it to work it out ofr me

[Berberis]

60 sounds alot for the space god im puzzled now

 

look at it this way. You can draw this if it makes it easier to understand. I did when I checked my workings out.

 

Your space is:

13ft x 8ft

 

if 1 foot = just over 30cm then your space is:

 

2.5m x 4m (approx)

 

Now for each row of slabs. Lets take the shorter end first. 2.5m

 

Your slabs are 400mm or 40cm, or .4m (10 milimetres = 1cm and 100cm = 1m)

 

so, you have a row that is 2.5m long and you have slabs of 0.4m in length. How many 0.4m go into 2.4m = 2.5 / 0.4 = 6.25 slabs.

 

Now for the longer side. 4m (this one is easier)

 

you have a row of slabs of 0.4m to stretch 4m so how many times does 0.4m go into 4.0m = 4.0 / 0.4 = 10 slabs

 

Now you just times the width by the length:

6.25 slabs x 10 slabs = 62.5 slabs

 

Vola

[Panthera]

concrete it!

[Berberis]

*looks admiringly at serapis*

 

Do you also know how many eggs the old lady paid at the toll gates?

 

ETA: 13x8=104 though

 

So it does, not sure how that snuck in

[laughalot01]

thanks every1 well now to start on the buying an picking slabs an then get some1 to put them done

[laughalot01]

im still puzzled

[HeadingNorth]

Serapis is essentially correct. If you want more exact figures:

 

1 foot = 30.48cm.

13 feet = 396.24cm = 10 slabs across

8 feet = 243.84 = six and a tiny bit, slabs across

 

So a square of sixty slabs, ten by six, would cover all but a tiny strip of the area you have (roughly one and a half inches wide).