Area
A rectangle has a length of 5 inches and a width of 13 inches. What is the area?
What is 65 square inches?
A rectangle has a length of 8 cm and a width of 4 cm. What is the perimeter?
What is 24 centimeters?
If a question uses "fence around a yard", what are they asking for?
Perimeter or Area?
Perimeter
A rectangle has a length of 7 cm and a width of 10 cm. What is the area?
What is 70 square cm?
A rectangle has a length of 3 inches and a width of 5 inches. What is the perimeter?
What is 16 inches?
The area of a water bottle sticker is 8 square centimeters. What is the width of the sticker if the length is 4 centimeters?
What is 2 centimeters?
A master bedroom has an area of 400 square feet. There is a bathroom in the master bedroom that is 7 feet wide and 8 feet long. The owner of the house wants to install carpet in the bedroom but not in the bathroom. What is the area that will be carpeted?
8 x 7 = 56 square feet (area of bathroom)
400 - 56 = 344 square feet
A rectangle has a length of 4 cm and a width of 6 cm. What is the area?
What is 24 square cm?
One side of a square is 11 cm. What is the perimeter?
What is 44 centimeters?
A rectangle has a perimeter of 100 feet. If it is 20 feet wide, what is its length?
What is 30 feet?
You join two rectangular table to decorate banners for a fundraiser. One rectangular table is 20 inches wide and 58 inches long. The second rectangular table is 20 inches wide and 42 inches long. How much newspaper do you need to cover the tops of the tables with no overlap and no paper hanging over the sides?
Table 1:
58 x 20 = 1,160 inches2 A = L X W
Table 2:
42 x 20 = 840 inches2
1,160 + 840 = 2,000 inches2
A rectangle has a length of 28 cm and a width of 32 cm. What is the area?
What is 896 square centimeters?
A rectangle has a length of 7 cm and a width of 10 cm. What is the perimeter?
What is 34 cm?
A bowling alley is replacing sections of 4 rectangular lanes. Each section is 60 feet long and 3 1/2 feet wide. The manager of the bowling alley orders 750 square feet of wooden planks. Does the manager have enough wooden planks to cover all four sections?
Area of one section:
60 x 3 1/2
= 180 + 30 = 210 feet
Area of four sections:
210 x 4 = 840 square feet
ANSWER - No the manager doesn't have enough wooden planks to cover all four sections.
A rectangle has a perimeter of 36 inches. If the width is 8 inches, what is the area?
What is 80 square inches?
A rectangle has an area 45 square cm. If the length of the shape is 5 cm, what is the perimeter?
What is 28 centimeters?
A landscaper lays square pavers that are 16 inches wide on a backyard patio. He completely covers the patio with 5 rows of 8 pavers. What is area of the patio?
Length = 16 inches
5 rows of 8 pavers = a total of 40 pavers
Step 2:
Area of the area of one paver -->
16 x 16 = 256 inches2
Area of all 40 pavers/the whole patio: 256 x 40 = 10,240 inches2256 x 4 = 1,024
The area of the whole patio is 10,240 inches2.