Real World Use
What does area measure?
The inside of a shape.
A piece of paper has a length of 11 inches and a width of 8 inches. What is the perimeter of the paper?
38 inches
The width of a rectangle is 5 feet and the perimeter is 30 feet? What is the length of the rectangle?
10 feet
What is the area of a shape if it has the height of 6 ft and a width of 6 ft?
36 square feet
How do you measure area?
A = length x width
Ms. Yon's garden has a length of 5 feet and a width of 8 feet. What is the perimeter of Ms. Yon's garden?
26 feet
The perimeter of a rectangle is 38 inches. The length of the rectangle is 12 inches. What is the width of the rectangle?
7 inches
What is the area of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?
64 square feet
To tile a floor, I would measure using (area or perimeter).
Area
A square has a perimeter of 32 meters. What is the length of one side?
8 meters
What is the length if the width of a square is 8 inches?
8 inches
RHS is building a sandbox. The length is 7 feet and the area is 28 feet. What is the width of the sandbox?
4 feet
Which side measures how wide something is?
Width
Michael's desk is 18 inches long and 14 inches wide. What is the perimeter of Michael's desk?
64 inches
The area of a rectangle is 72 square feet. The length is 12 feet. What is the width of the rectangle?
6 feet
Ms. Yon's husband is building a tree house. The length is 10 feet, the width is 4 feet, and the area is 40 square feet. What is the perimeter of the tree house?
28 feet
Which side measures how long something is?
Length
Ashley has two boxes that have the same perimeter. Box A is 7 inches long and 4 inches wide. Box B is 8 inches long. How many inches wide is Box B?
3 inches wide
What is width if the area of a square is 144 square inches?
12 inches
Hasheen is making two posters for Ms. Yon. Poster A is 10 inches long and 2 inches wide. Poster B is 4 inches long and 5 inches wide. How much bigger is Poster A's perimeter than Poster B?
6 inches