Area or Perimeter?
Perimeter
Area
Real-World Problems
100
What does perimeter measure?
What is the outside/around a shape.
100
A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?
28 centimeters
100
Jaxon's square garden has a length of 7 ft. What is the area of his garden?
49 square feet
100
What is the area of a shape if it has the height of 6 ft and a width of 6ft?
36 square feet
200
What does area measure?
The inside of a shape
200
What is the perimeter of the tv?
84 inches
200
Mr. Tumnus put a table that is 5 ft. wide by 4 ft. long. What is the area of the table?
20 square feet.
200
What is the perimeter of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?
32 feet
300
To build a fence, I would measure...
perimeter
300
A rectangular table is 98 centimeters long 45 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the table?
286 centimeters
300
Finnie's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt has 6 square foot blocks with 11 square foot blocks in each row. What is the area of the quilt?
66 square feet
300
Mrs. Kraft wants her husband to build us a new treehouse. She wants it to make it bigger and asks that he makes it 10 feet in width and 9 feet in height. What will be the area of the new treehouse?
90 square feet
400
Ms. Domadia wants to buy carpet for a new tree house, what will she use to find how much carpet she needs to buy?
area
400
Emilia is putting a fence around her garden. She knows the perimeter is 48 feet. She has already fenced in three sides each measuring 12 feet. How much more fence does she need to finish fencing in her garden?
12 feet
400
Orlagh has a square garden. She wants to buy soil to fill the garden. She knows the sides are all 8 feet. How much soil will she need?
64 square feet
400
Mrs. Reilly needs to get a new washer. However, she has to make sure the washer will fit in the small space that she has. If the area measures 100 square inches, will a washer that measures 10 in. in width and 15 in length fit? Please be ready to explain.
No, the washer will have to have an area of 150 square in.
500
You are building a playground, and need to build a fence and put mulch inside of the fence. Which will you measure for the area and perimeter?
Area for the mulch
Perimeter for the fence.
500
Ayden is putting a border around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 27 centimeters of the border. Two of the sides are both 8 centimeters long. How long is the third side?
11 centimeters
500
Hayden put a table that is 8 feet wide by 7 feet long. What is the area of the table?
56 square feet
500
Mrs. Myers wants to add on a new addition to the school. What will be the new area of the school if the new addition measures 10 feet in width and 20 feet in length?
200 square feet