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Inventory Selection for Square Tiling Projects

A flooring contractor is selecting boxes of tiles for a decorative square fountain base. To ensure the layout is a perfect square without having to cut any tiles, the total number of tiles in the box must be a perfect square number. The contractor is looking at three specific boxes in the warehouse.

Based on your recall of perfect square numbers, identify which two boxes the contractor should select and specify the counting number (side length) that was squared to produce each of those two totals.

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