Real World Use
Perimeter
Area
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What does perimeter measure?

What is the outside/around a shape.

100

A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?

28 centimeters 

100

Sarah is painting a picture where each side measures 9 inches. How much paint will she need to cover the square picture?

36 square feet

100

What is the area of a shape if it has the height of 6 ft and a width of 6ft?

36 square feet

200

What does area measure?

The inside of a shape

200

What is the perimeter of the tv?

84 inches

200

Lucy is counting the ceiling tiles in her gym. There are 10 rows with 8 in each row. How many tiles are there in all?

80

200

What is the perimeter of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?

32 feet

300

To build a fence, I would measure...

perimeter

300

A rectangular table is 90 centimeters long 40 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the table?

360 centimeters

300

Karen's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt has 6 square foot blocks with 9 square foot blocks in each row. What is the area of the quilt?

54 square feet

300

Mrs. Joni needs to get a new washer. However, she has to make sure the washer will fit in the small space that she has. If the area measures 100 square feet, will a washer that measure 10 in. in width and 15 in length fit? Please be ready to explain.

No, the washer would have an area of 15o sq. ft.  That will be too big for a space that is 100 square feet.

400

Mr. Stimmell wants to buy carpet for a new tree house, what will he use to find how much carpet he needs to buy?

area

400

Sarah is putting fence around her garden. She know the perimeter is 48 feet. She has already fenced in three sides each measuring 12 feet. How much more fence does she need to finish fencing in her garden?

12 feet

400

Sarah has a square garden. She wants to buy mulch to fill the garden. She knows the sides are all 10 feet. How much mulch will she need?

100 square feet

400

Mrs. Joni wants her husband to build us a new tree house. She wants it to make it bigger and asks that he makes it 10 feet in width and 9 feet in height. What will be the area of the new tree house?

90 square feet

500

You are building a playground, and need to build a fence and put mulch inside of the fence. Will you have to measure for area or perimeter?

Both.  Area for the mulch and perimeter for the fence.

500

Terry is putting trim around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 27 centimeters of trim. Two of the sides are both 8 centimeters long. How long is the third side?

11 centimeters

500

Josh put a table that is 8 feet wide by 7 feet long. What is the area of the table?

56 square feet

500

Margo has a square rug with a perimeter of 32 feet.  She says she does not have enough information to find the side lengths of the rug.  What can you tell Margo to help her find the measurements of the side lengths?

I would tell Margo to divide 32 by 4 because a square has 4 equal sides.  She will see that the side lengths measures 8 ft.

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