Vocabulary
Lines that cross each other and make a right angle.
Perpendicular
The area of a square is 49 square inches. What is the length of one side?
7 square inches
The area of a square pond is 64 square feet. What is the perimeter?
32 feet
What is the formula for area?
L x W
A rectangular piece of plastic is 8 mm wide and 10 mm long. What is the area?
80 square mm
Lines that can continue forever and never cross.
Parallel
A rectangle has a length of 15 yards and a width of 4 yards. What is the area?
60 square yards
A rectangle has a width of 25 cm and a length of 15 cm. Find the perimeter.
80 cm
What is the formula for perimeter?
L + L + W + W
The school needs to put a fence around the playground. The playground measures 13 feet by 9 feet. How many feet of fence do they need?
44 feet
Name 3 attributes of a square.
1. 4 equal sides
2. 4 right angles
3. Two pairs of parallel lines
The width of a rectangle is 53 centimeters squared and the length is 22 squared sm. What is the area?
110 square centimeters
The perimeter of a square field is 80 feet. What is the length of one side?
20 feet
If I want to carpet a room, will I use area or perimeter?
Area
Elise built a rectangular garden that is 9 feet long and has an area of 72 square feet. What is the perimeter of her garden?
34 feet
Name 3 attributes of a rectangle.
1. Opposite sides are equal.
2. 4 right angles
3. Two pairs of parallel lines
The area of a rectangular piece of land is 120 square yards. It's width is 15 yards. What is the length?
8 square yards
A rectangle has a perimeter of 240 feet. One width side measures 30 feet. What is the length of one side?
90 feet
If I wanted to build a fence around my garden, will I use area or perimeter?
Juan needs soil to cover his garden. It measures 10 ft. by 2 ft. One bag of soil can cover 5 ft. How many bags are needed?
4 bags
Is a rectangle a square? Yes or No and explain using math vocabulary.
No, a rectangle is not a square because all sides of a rectangle are not equal.
The perimeter of a rectangle is 20 yards. One side is 4 yards. Find the area of the shape.
24 square yards
A rectangular box has a width of 18 centimeters. It's perimeter is 100 centimeters. What is the length?
32 centimeters
David is sewing a quilt. He wants to include a 3 inch border around the edge of the quilt. Will he need to know the area or perimeter to measure for his quilt?
Perimeter
Linda was putting carpet in her room. She got out her measuring tape. She measured the length as 16 ft. and the width as 18 ft. What does Linda need to find out in order to buy carpet? What is the answer to her problem?
She needs to find out the area.
288 square feet.