How do you find the perimeter of a irregular polygon?
Add the lengths of every side.
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What is the total area of the all the faces of a triangular prism?
The surface area
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What is the formula to calculate the perimeter of a parallelogram?
P = (Length + Width) x 2
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What is the formula to measure the area of a rectangle?
A = Length X Width
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The formula to calculate the area of a triangle is?
A = (base x height) divided by 2
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What is the formula for calculating the perimeter of a square?
P= (Length + width) x 2
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What tool would you use to measure the length of a car?
Measuring Tape
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What is the formula to calculate the perimeter of a triangle?
P = s1 + s2 + s3
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True or false. If you were to estimate the shape of the sole of your shoe the two ways you could calculate the area are the inside the sole footprint and the area outside the sole footprint?
True.
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How are the areas of triangles and rectangles related?
If a triangle and a rectangle have the same base and height, the area of the triangle is one-half the area of the rectangle.
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If all sides of a polygon were equal how can you calculate the perimeter?
Multiply the length of one of the sides by the number of sides
Example 5x3.5 = 17.5
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If you were to measure the space of a school portable what unit would you use and why?
Cubic meters - because it is a 3D object and we are measuring the space it occupies
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What object in the classroom can you think of that is the shape of a rectangular prism?
Kleenex box
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What is the formula you use to calculate the perimeter of a rectangle?
Perimeter = (Length + Width) x 2
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How are the area of a triangle and the area of a parallelogram are related?
A parallelogram can be divided into 2 triangles with the same base and height.
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The perimeter of a figure is sum of the ? of the sides?
Lengths
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What unit of measure is used when travelling to Toronto?
kilometres (KM)
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What chocolate bar is the shape of a triangular prism?
Toblerone
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What is the difference between a regular polygon and a irregular polygon?
A regular polygon has equal sides and equal angles
An irregular polygon does not have equal sides and equal angles.
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What does area mean?
The inside space of a shape.
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What does perimeter mean?
The distance around a two-dimensional shape.
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How is a cube different then a square?
A square has 2 dimensions (length and width)
A cube has 3 dimensions (length, width, height)
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What is a paralleogram?
A parallelogram is a 4-sided shape, with two pairs of equal sides, such as a rectangle, but where the angles are not necessarily 90 degrees.
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What object that is rectangular in the classroom could you find the area of?