What does perimeter measure?
What is the outside/around a shape.
A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?
28 centimeters
Sarah is painting a picture where each side measures 12 inches. How much paint will she need to cover the whole picture? Hint: Area
144 in2
What is the area of a shape if it has a length of 6 ft and a width of 6ft?
36 square feet
What does area measure?
The inside of a shape
What is the perimeter of the tv?
84 inches
Lucy is counting the ceiling tiles in her gym. There are 46 rows, with 9 in each row. How many tiles are there in all?
414 tiles
What is the perimeter of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?
32 feet
To build a fence, I would measure...
perimeter
A rectangular table is 98 centimeters long 45 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the table?
286 centimeters
Karen's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt is 4 feet long and 6 feet wide. What is the area of the quilt?
24 square feet
Kayla is cooking with a pan that is 12 cm long. The perimeter of the pan is 42 cm. What is the width of the pan?
9 cm
You are building a playground, and need to build a fence and put mulch inside of the fence. Will you have to measure for area or perimeter?
Area for the mulch
Perimeter for the fence.
Terry is putting trim around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 38 centimeters of trim. The length of the picture is 8 cm. What is the width?
11 centimeters
Josh put a table that is 8 feet wide by 7 feet long. What is the area of the table?
56 ft2
Length: 35 feet
Width: 12 Feet
Area?
420 square feet
Mr. Stimmell wants to buy carpet for a new tree house, what will he use to find how much carpet he needs to buy?
area
Sarah is putting fence around her garden. She know the perimeter is 48 feet. The length is 6 feet. What is the width?
21 feet
Sarah has a square garden. She wants to buy dirt to fill the garden. She knows the sides are all 16 feet. How much mulch will she need?
64 square feet
Mrs. Joni wants to build a tree house. She wants the length to be 10 feet and 9 feet in in width. What will be the area of the tree house?
90 square feet