Word Problems
Trapezoids
Parallelograms
Triangles
Missing Dimensions
100

A polygon with 6 vertices is drawn on the coordinate plane.  What do you know about the polygon?

It's a hexagon

100

Find the area of a trapezoid: 

base1 = 5 cm

base2 = 9 cm 

height = 4 cm.

28 cm²?

100
The area of a parallelogram with a base of 7 m and a height of 4 m.
What is 28 m²?
100

The area of a triangle with a base of 9 cm and a height of 4 cm.

18 cm2

100
The length of a rectangle with an area of 36 cm² and a width of 4 cm.
9 cm?
200

A drawer has a volume of 550 cubic inches.  The drawer is 10 inches deep and 11 inches long.  What is the width of the drawer?

5 inches

200

The area of a trapezoid:

base 1 = 3m

base 2 = 1m 

height = 2m.

4 m²

200
The area of a parallelogram with a base of 8 cm and a height of 7 cm.
What is 56 cm²?
200

The area of a triangle with a base of 2 m and a height of 5 m.

What is 5 m²?

200
The length of a square with an area of 64 m².
8 m
300

A box of Fruit Loops is 4 inches wide, 8.5 inches long and 10  inches high.  The box is half empty.  What is the volume of the cereal left in the box?

170 in3

300

The area of a trapezoid:

height = 17cm

base 1 = 13cm

base 2 = 10cm.

195.5 cm²

300

The area of a rhombus with a base of 4 cm and a height of 7 cm.

What is 28 cm²?

300

The area of a triangle with a base of 10 km and a height of 4 km.

What is 20 km²?

300

Find the height of the parallelogram.

Area = 36 meters2

Base = 12 meters

3 meters

400

A triangular map has a height of 11.10 meters and a base of 11.70 meters.  A second map is the same height as the first one but has a base twice as long.  What is the total area of both maps? ROUND your answer to the nearest whole number.

195 m2

400

The area of a trapezoid with: 

base 1 of 5cm, 

height of 7cm 

base 2 of 9cm.

49 cm²

400

The area of a parallelogram with a base of 3 m and a height of 16 m.

48 m2

400

The area of a triangle with a base of 70 cm and a height of 6 cm?

210 cm²

400

The height of a triangle with a base of 12 cm and an area of 48 cm².

8 cm?

500

The floor of your room is being tiled.  Your room is shaped like a parallelogram.  The parallelogram has a base of 12.7 feet and a height of 13 feet.  Each package of tile will cover 7 square feet.  If you buy 40 packages of tile, will that be enough to tile your room? How do you know?

Yes it will be enough, because the area of the room is 165.1 square inches, and you purchased 280 square inches of tile.

500

Find the area:

(4,7)  (6, 9)  (8, 9)  (10, 7)

8 u2

500

Find the area:

(0, 5)  (6, 5)  (0, 8)  (6, 8)

18 u2

500

Find the area:

(0, 0)  (0, 5)  (6, 0)

15 u²

500

The height of a trapezoid.  

Area=240 cm² 

b1= 20 cm

b2 = 40 cm

8 cm

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