Rectangles and Squares
What is the formula to find the area of a rectangle?
A= l x w
What is the formula to find the area of a triangle?
Area= (bxh)/2 or 1/2(bxh)
What is the formula to find the area of a parallelogram?
A = bxh
What is the formula to find the area of a trapezoid?
Area=h(base 1 + base 2)/2 or 1/2h(base 1 + base 2) or (base 1 + base 2)/2 xh
Jessica wants to put a fence around her 10 foot by 13 foot rectangular garden. How many feet of fencing will she need?
46 feet of fencing
A square has a side length of 4 cm. What is the area?
16 cm2
What is the area of a triangle that has a base of 5 inches and a height of 6 inches?
15 in2
A parallelogram has a base of 5 m and a height of 4 m. What is the area?
20 m2
A trapezoid has bases of 4 cm and 10 cm. If the height is 6 cm, what is the area?
42 cm2
How many inches of matting is needed to frame an 8.5 inch by 11 inch print?
39 inches
A square has a side length of 17 m. What is the area?
289 m2
What is the area of a trianlgle with a base 4in and a height 12in?
24in2
A parallelogram has an area of 40 square metres and a height of 5 metres. What is the length of the base?
8 metres
Find the area for a trapezoid with base lengths of 10mm and 12mm, and a height of 14mm.
154 mm2
The state of Colorado is nearly rectangular. It is about 589 kilometers by 456 kilometers. What is the perimeter of Colorado?
2,090 kilometers
Find the area of a rectangle with side measurements of 7 and 18 cm.
126 cm2
A triangle has a base length of 3.5 m and a height of 2.2 m. What is the area?
3.85 m2
Norman is a sunflower farmer. His farm is in the shape of a parallelogram with a height measuring 3 km and a base measuring 4.2 km. What is the total land area Norman uses?
12.6 km2
The 2 parallel sides of a trapezoid measures 15 metres and 2 metres. If the height of the trapezoid is 5 metres, what is the area of the trapezoid?
42.5 m2
An equilateral triangle has side lengths of 5.5 cm. What is the perimeter?
16.5cm
A rectangle has an area of 84 square metres. If the length is 12 metres, what is the width?
7 metres
Courtney wants to carpet part of her bedroom that is shaped like a right triangle with base 4 meters and height 5.2 meters. How much carpet will she need?
10.4 m2
Ella and Veronica are in charge of making a banner for the volleyball game this Saturday. How much poster paper will they need for a parallelogram-shaped banner with height 3.5 feet and base 6 feet?
21 ft2 of poster paper
A trapezoid has bases of 8.2 and 7.4 cm. Its height is 9 cm. Find the area.
70.2 cm2
A square has an area of 144 square feet. What is the perimeter?
48 feet