Ares: Squares and Rectangles
How do you find perimeter?
= length + width + length + width
Tom has a poster with a length of 5 feet and a width of 3 feet. He wants to put a wooden frame around the poster. What length of wood will Tom need to frame his poster?
Key word: AROUND
16 feet
What is the formula to find the area of a triangle?
base x height / 2
What is the formula for the area of a parallelogram?
length x width
Length: 7 feet
Width: 17 feet
Perimeter: ?
48 feet
Sally's pool table has a height of 4 and a length of 9 feet. What is the area of the pool table?
36 square feet
Height: 5 cm
Base: 4 cm
Area: ?
10 square cm
Height: 5 m
Area: ?
100 square meters
Ben is painting his room. He paints 3 walls. Each wall has dimensions of 13 x 8 feet. What is the total area that Ben has to paint?
312 square feet
Miss DiPinto has a triangle shaped room. If one wall is 13 feet long, one wall is 10 feet long, and one wall is 20 feet long, what is the perimeter?
43 feet
Length: 12.5
Height: 5 m
Area: ?
62.5 square meters
Length: 15 feet
Width: 5
Perimeter: ?
40 feet
Mike is taking measurements of different rooms in his house. The bonus room has an area of 72 square feet. The length of the room is 8 feet. What is the height?
34 feet
Height: 80 meters
Base: 10 meters
Area: ?
40 square meters
A parallelogram has a height on 8 cm and an area of 64 square cm. What is the length?
8 cm
Length: ?
Width: 17 feet
Perimeter: 78 feet
22 feet
Hannah and Sally are planting gardens. Hannah's garden is 2 x 8 feet long. Sally's garden is 4 x 4 feet long. They want to put fencing around their gardens. Who will need more fencing?
Hannah
4 feet
This parallelogram is HUGE. It is 10657 feet tall and has an area of 319710 square feet. What is the length?
30 feet