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If you have to use all of them, 1.
In practice you will use more tiles than the equivalent area of the room. A 15 foot strip of tiles will require 15 times 12/13 = 13.846 tiles to cover it. This will have to be rounded to 14 tiles. That means that the 15 foot by 15 foot room will require 14 times 14 tiles = 196 tiles to cover it. And that's if you don't drop and break any or mess up one or more cuts.
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5 rectangular shapes. But 9 if, for example, a 3*12 rectangle is considered as being different from a 12*3 rectangle.
The easiest way of doing this question is to draw a diagram. 8 lots of 3cm does into 24 so we can fit 8 tiles across. 4 lots of 4cm goes into 16 so we can fit 4 tiles down. The rectangle then has 8 tiles across and 4 down, 8 x 4=32 which means we use 32 tiles