Area of parallelograms
Area of triangle
Formulas
Word Problems #1
Word Problems #2
100
What is the area of a Parallelogram with a base of 7yd and a height of 5 yd?
35 square yards
100
What is the area of a triangle with base of 8 cm. and a height of 9 cm.
36 square cm.
100
What is the formula used to find the area of a rectangle?
What is base x height. or What is length x width.
100
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Kaya is fencing a garden. The garden is 3 ft. tall and 10 ft. long. How many feet of fence will Kaya need?
What is an area problem, 30 square feet.
100
A farmer has cattle he wants to fence inside a square shape. One of the sides measures 4 yards. How much fence will the farmer need to fence in his cattle?
What is 16 yards.
200
Parallelogram A has a base of 8 ft and a height of 7 ft. Parallelogram B has a base of 9 ft and a height of 10 ft. Which parallelogram has the greater area?
Parallelogram B.
200
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 7 inches and a height of 4 inches?
14 square inches
200
What is the formula used to find the area of a parallelogram?
What is a base x height.
200
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Max wants new carpet for his room. The room is 6 yds long and 5 yds. wide. How many yards of carpet will she need?
What is an area problem, 30 square yards.
200
A rectangular rug is 10 feet long and 3 feet wide. What is its area and perimeter?
What is 30 square feet, and 26 feet.
300
Which figure has the greater area? A rectangle with base of 11 ft and a height of 6 ft A square with 8 ft per side. A Parallelogram with a base of 7 ft. and a height of 3 ft. A rectangle with base of 10 ft. and a height of 5 ft.
A rectangle with base of 11 ft. and a height of 6 ft.
300
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 18 inches and a height of 19 inches?
171 square inches
300
What is the formula to find the area of a square?
What is base x height. What is length x width.
300
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Terry drew a picture of his sister. It was 8 cm long and 5 cm wide. He wants to make a frame out of colored tape to put arond the picture. How much tape will he need?
What is 40 cm of tape?
300
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Each side of a square garden is 7 yards long. What is the garden's perimeter?
What is perimeter, 28 yards.
400
What is the area of a parallelogram with a height of 5 ft. and a base of 13 ft.
65 square feet
400
Jay says that a triangle has an area of 1,600 square inches. the triangle has a height of 80 in. and a base of 20 inches. Is he correct?
No. He forgot to divide by 2.
400
What is the formula used to find the area of a triangle?
What is base x height ___________ 2
400
A triangle has sides of 4 ft., 5 ft., and 13ft. What is the perimeter in feet?
What is 22 ft.
400
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. The perimeter of a rectangular garage is 34 meters. It is 8 meters wide. How long is it?
What is perimeter, 9 meters long.
500
Karl knows the area of a parallelogram is 54 square inches. The base of this parallelogram is 9 inches. and the height is h inches. What is the measure for the height of this parallelogram?
6 inches
500

A space ship has triangular shaped windows. The base of each window is 9 cm. The height is h cm. The area of each window is 27 square centimeters. Find the height of each window.

6 cm.

500

The base of a parallelogram is 5cm and the height is 5 cm. Alex said that the area of the parallelogram is 50 square cm. Myra said the area is 25 square cm. Which student is correct?

What is Myra?

500
A right triangle has an area of 30 square inches. The height is 30 feet. What is the base?
What is 2 ft.
500
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. A rectangular soccer goal is 12 meters wide and 20 meters long. What is its perimeter?
What is perimeter? What is 64 meters.
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