Area
What is area?
Area is the total space taken up by a flat (2D) surface or shape.
What is surface area?
The amount of space covering the outside (or surface) of a three-dimensional shape.
The classroom is getting a new carpet to cover the whole floor. If the room has a length of 10 meters and a width of 6 meters, how much carpet will the room need?
The classroom will need 60 m2 of carpet to cover the whole floor.
In a drawing, there are three circles, four stars, and three triangles. What is the ratio of stars to the total number of shapes.
What is 4/10 or 2/5?
Ari can walk 2 miles in 40 min. What is the amount of time it will take him to walk 4 miles?
What is 80 minutes?
Find the area of a square that has a side length of 12cm.
Area = 144cm2
Find the surface area of a cube that has a side length of 8cm.
Surface area = 384cm2
Joanna created a triangular-shaped vegetable garden and needs to put down fertilizer to cover the space. If the garden has a base of 12 m and a height of 6 m, how much fertilizer will she need?
Joanna needs 36m2 of fertilizer.
Write a unit rate for this situation:
310 heartbeats per 5 minutes
What is 62 heartbeats per minute?
Paul used 6 black tiles and 12 white tiles for a pattern. What is the ratio of black tiles to white tiles?
What is 6:12 or 1:2?
What is the area of a parallelogram with a height of 5 and a base of 3?
What is 15 units squared?
Find the surface area of a rectangular brick that has a length of 5cm, a width of 9cm, and a height of 2 cm.
Surface area = 146 cm2
A rectangular piece of paper measuring 3cm by 2cm was cut from a larger sheet of paper measuring 6cm by 5cm. What is the area of the remaining sheet of paper?
The area of the remaining sheet of paper is 24cm2.
The recipe calls for 2 eggs for every 8 cups of flour. How many eggs are needed with 40 cups of flour?
What are 10 eggs?
5 shovels of sand are mixed with 4 shovels of gravel to make cement. What is the number of shovels of gravel needed for 45 shovels of sand.
What is 36?
Find the area of a triangle with a height of 8 mm and a base of 11mm.
Area = 44 mm2
Find the area of the triangular prism shown on the whiteboard.
What is 144 units squared?
The surface area of a square pyramid where the base edge is 5 centimeters while the height of a lateral face is 6 centimeters.
What is 85 square centimeters?
There are 40 rabbits in a cage. The ratio of white rabbits to grey rabbits is 3:7. How many white rabbits are in the cage?
What are 12 white rabbits?
30 buses can carry 1500 people. What is the number of people that can be carried by 5 buses?
What is 250 people?
Find the area of a trapezoid with the following measurements:
base 1 = 5 cm; base 2 = 9 cm; height = 7 cm
Area = 49 cm2
The surface area of a triangular pyramid with the following description: the base is an equilateral triangle with a side length of 12 ft and a height of 10 ft; the lateral face has a height of 9 ft.
What is 222 square feet?
Lucy is painting one wall in her bedroom. The wall measures 13 feet long and 9 feet wide. If one can of paint covers 50 square feet, how many cans does she need?
Lucy will need 3 cans of paint.
There are 75 mice in a cage. The ratio of pink mice to black mice is 2:3. How many black mice are in the cage?
What are 45 mice?
Ivy's Fresh Eggs transports its eggs in crates. It takes 2 trucks to carry 80 crates. What is the number of crates that 8 trucks can carry?
What is 320 crates?