Perimeter
Which of the following would be the correct unit for measuring the perimeter of a rectangular fence that is 10 feet by 12 feet? 44 sq. feet 44 feet 44 cu. feet
What is 44 feet?
Which of the following would be the correct unit for measuring the area covered by a rug that is 3 meters by 4 meters? 12 meters 12 cu. meters 12 sq. meters
What is 12 sq. meters?
Which of the following is the correct unit for measuring the volume of a tissue box that is 10 inches by 4 inches by 3 inches? 120 cu. inches 120 inches 120 sq. inches
What is 120 cu. inches?
The woods behind Jerry's house were 6 miles wide and 3 miles long. What is the area of the woods?
What is 18 sq. miles?
Measuring the distance from the swingset to the slide would be this type of measurement.
What is length?
Find the perimeter of a rectangle that is 12 meters by 14 meters.
What is 52 meters?
An envelope from the post office is 4 1/2 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches long. What is the area of the envelope?
What is 20 1/4 sq. inches?
A bedroom has a length of 11 feet, a width of 13 feet, and a height of 8 feet. What is the volume of the bedroom?
What is 1,144 cu. feet?
How much space is taken up by a box that is 15 cm long, 20 cm tall, and 12 cm wide?
What is 3,600 cu. cm?
Calculating the amount of space in a moving box would be this type of measurement.
What is volume?
Find the perimeter of a rectangle that is 6 1/2 feet by 5 1/4 feet.
What is 23 1/2 feet?
A rectangle has an area of 33 sq. meters and a length of 5 1/2 meters. How wide is the rectangle?
What is 6 meters?
A fish tank has a volume of 3,000 cu. inches. The base of the fish tank is 20 inches by 10 inches. How tall is the fish tank?
What is 15 inches?
A lawn had a length of 9 feet and a width of 8 feet. How much fence would be needed to go around the lawn?
What is 34 feet?
Determining how much carpet it would take to cover your bedroom floor would be this type of measurement.
What is area?
A square has a perimeter of 20 cm. What must the length of each side be?
What is 5 cm?
A square picture frame has an area of 100 sq. inches. How long is each side?
What is 10 inches?
A fish tank has a volume of 3,000 cu. inches. The base of the fish tank is 20 inches by 10 inches. How tall is the fish tank?
What is 3 feet?
A student is making a book. They want the front and back cover to each be 3 inches by 5 inches. How much paper is needed to make both of the covers?
What is 30 sq. inches?
Name a real life situation in which finding area would be helpful.
Answers vary.
A garden has a rectangular fence that is 50 feet long. The length of the fence is 16 feet. What is the width of the fence?
What is 9 feet?
A piece of wrapping paper has an area of 150 sq. cm. The width of the wrapping paper is 30 cm. What is the length?
What is 50 cm?
Look at the picture of the L-Shaped rectangular prism. What is the total volume of the prism?
What is 470 cu. cm?
720 cu. cm = volume of whole box
250 cu. cm = volume of missing piece
Billy is painting a wall of his bedroom. The wall is 8 feet by 12 feet. There is a door in one wall that is 7 feet by 2 1/2 feet. How much paint is needed for the wall?
What is 78 1/2 sq. feet of paint?