Area of parallelograms
What is the area of a triangle with base of 8 cm. and a height of 9 cm.
36 square cm.
What is the formula used to find the area of a rectangle?
What is base x height. or What is length x width.
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Kaya is fencing in a garden. The garden is 6 ft. tall and 10 ft. long. How many feet of fence will Kaya need?
What is an perimeter problem, 32 feet
Find the area of the trapezoid in inches, if the lengths of the parallel bases are 10 inches and 12 inches then height of a trapezoid is 6 inches
66 square inches
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 7 inches and a height of 4 inches?
14 square inches
What is the formula used to find the area of a parallelogram?
What is a base x height.
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve. Max wants new carpet for his room. The room is 6 yds long and 5 yds. wide. How many yards of carpet will she need?
What is an area problem, 30 square yards.
The 2 parallel sides of trapezoid measure 15 inches and 13 inches. If the height of the trapezoid is 9 inches, then what is the area?
126 inches2
Which figure has the greater area?
A rectangle with base of 11 ft and a height of 6 ft?
A Parallelogram with a base of 7 ft. and a height of 3 ft.
A rectangle with base of 11 ft. and a height of 6 ft.
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 18 inches and a height of 19 inches?
171 square inches
What is the formula to find the area of a parallelogram?
What is base x height.
State whether it is an area or perimeter problem. Then Solve.
Terry drew a picture of his sister. It was 8 cm long and 5 cm wide. He wants to make a frame out of colored tape to put around the picture. How much tape will he need?
What is 26 cm of tape?
The 2 parallel sides of trapezoid measure 15 inches and 13 inches. The legs measure 8 inches and 9 inches. What is the perimeter?
45 inches
What is the area of a parallelogram with a height of 5 ft. and a base of 13 ft.
65 square feet
Jay says that a triangle has an area of 1,600 square inches. the triangle has a height of 80 in. and a base of 20 inches. Is he correct?
No. He forgot to divide by 2.
What is the formula used to find the area of a triangle?
1/2 bh
A triangle has sides of 4 ft., 5 ft., and 13ft. What is the perimeter in feet?
What is 22 ft.
Karl knows the area of a parallelogram is 54 square inches. The base of this parallelogram is 9 inches. and the height is h inches. What is the measure for the height of this parallelogram?
6 inches
A space ship has triangular shaped windows. The base of each window is 9 cm. The height is h cm. The area of each window is 36 square centimeters. Find the height of each window.
8 cm
The base of a parallelogram is 5cm and the height is 5 ft. Alex said that the area of the parallelogram is 50 square cm. Myra said the area is 25 square cm. Which student is correct?
Myra
A right triangle has an area of 30 square inches. The height is 30 feet. What is the base?
What is 2 ft.