Measuring for flooring advice

[Bertha1924]

I want to get some rubber flooring tiles (hopefully to stop me slipping on my cheap shiny laminate) for my small kitchen but am not sure how many tiles I would need. Each tile measures 500mm x 500mm. The width of the room is 8 foot 8 inches and the length is 9 foot 5 inches (sorry I can’t cope with metric). Any whizz kids out there who could let me know how many tiles to order. They are in a black Friday sale. Thank you

Well technically you need 30.42 but allowing for cutoffs I reckon 36.

Maybe go for 40 just in case of cutting errors.

8 feet 8 inches is 8 2/3 feet ≈ 8.6667 feet.

One foot is 0.3048 m exactly (it's the definition these days)
so that's 8.6667 × 0.3048 = 2.6416 m.

Each tile is 0.5 m wide so you'll need 2.6416 ÷ 0.5 = 5.2832 tiles. You can't buy fractional tiles so you need to buy 6 to cover the width.

9 feet 5 inches is 9 5/12 feet ≈ 9.4167 feet = 9.4167 × 0.3048 = 2.8702 m. You'll need 2.8702 ÷ 0.5 = 5.7404 amd again you'll have to round up to 6 tiles.

So you'll need 6 × 6 = 36 tiles, minimum. I would buy 40 to be on the safe side.