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Tyler's Big Living Room

Source: 2018 AMC 8 #9

November 20, 2018
2018 AMC 8AMC 8

Problem Statement

Tyler is tiling the floor of his 12 foot by 16 foot living room. He plans to place one-foot by one-foot square tiles to form a border along the edges of the room and to fill in the rest of the floor with two-foot by two-foot square tiles. How many tiles will he use?
<spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span>48<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span>87<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span>91<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span>96<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span>120<span class='latex-bold'>(A) </span>48\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(B) </span>87\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(C) </span>91\qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(D) </span>96\qquad <span class='latex-bold'>(E) </span>120