Area Formulas
VOCABULARY
Area of Parallelograms
Area of Other Shapes
Area of Compound Shapes
100
What is the area formula for a rectangle?
A = l x w
100
What is the distance around a shape called?
PERIMETER is the distance around a shape.
100
Find the area of the following parallelogram
What is 72 cm squared?
100
What is the area of the triangle with a base of 5 and a height of 8?
10 square units
200
What is the area formula for a parallelogram?
A = b x h
200
What is the amount of space inside a 2D shape called?
AREA is the amount of space inside a 2D shape.
200
Find the area of the following parallelogram.
What is 63 cm2
200
What is the area of the rectangle?
24 cm2
300
What is the area formula for a triangle?
A = (b x h) รท 2
300
What type of units is area measured in?
SQUARE UNITS are used to measure area.
300
Find the area of the following parallelogram.
What is 135 in2
300
What is the area of the rectangle?
36 cm2
300
Find the area of the figure below.
135 cm2
400
What is the area of a rhombus/kite?
A = (a x b) / 2
(a and b are the diagonals)
400
List all the 4 shapes which have opposite sides being parallel.
Square, Rectangle, Rhombus and Parallelogram
400
An interior designer is tiling a bathroom using tile shaped like a parallelogram. The base of one tile is 2 and 1/2 cm and the height is 2 cm. Find the area of one tile.
5 cm squared
400
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 6 cm, a slant height of 12cm and a perpendicular height of 10 cm?
30 cm2
400
Find the area of the shape below.
84 cm2
500
What is the formula for the area of a trapezium?
A = ((a + b)xx h)\div 2
500
Which shape has adjacent sides being equal?
Kite
500
The area of a parallelogram is 60 cm2. If the height is 12 cm then what is the base?
5 cm
500
What is the area of this trapezium?
A = 170 cm^2
500
Find the area of the sidewalk around the pool.
68 units2