Ares: Squares and Rectangles
Perimeter
Word Problems
Area: Triangles
Area: Parallelograms
100
What is the formula for area?
A = length x width
100

How do you find perimeter?

= length + width + length + width

100

Tom has a poster with a length of 5 feet and a width of 3 feet. He wants to put a wooden frame around the poster. What length of wood will Tom need to frame his poster?

Key word: AROUND

16 feet

100

What is the formula to find the area of a triangle?

base x height / 2

100

What is the formula for the area of a parallelogram?

length x width

200
Length: 14 meters Width: 7 meters Area: ?
98 square meters
200

Length: 7 feet

Width: 17 feet

Perimeter: ?

48 feet

200

Sally's pool table has a height of 4 and a length of 9 feet. What is the area of the pool table?

36 square feet

200

Height: 5 cm

Base: 4 cm

Area: ?

10 square cm

200
Length: 20 m


Height: 5 m

Area: ?

100 square meters

300
Length: 41 meters Width: 23 meters Area: ?
943 square meters
300
Length: 25 feet Width: 19 feet Perimeter: ?
88 feet
300

Ben is painting his room. He paints 3 walls. Each wall has dimensions of 13 x 8 feet. What is the total area that Ben has to paint?

312 square feet

300

Miss DiPinto has a triangle shaped room. If one wall is 13 feet long, one wall is 10 feet long, and one wall is 20 feet long, what is the perimeter? 

43 feet

300

Length: 12.5


Height: 5 m

Area: ?

62.5 square meters

400
Length: 12 meters Width: ? Area: 84 square meters
7 meters
400

Length: 15 feet

Width: 5 

Perimeter: ?

40 feet

400

Mike is taking measurements of different rooms in his house. The bonus room has an area of 72 square feet. The length of the room is 8 feet. What is the height?

34 feet

400

Height: 80 meters

Base: 10 meters

Area: ?

40 square meters

400

A parallelogram has a height on 8 cm and an area of 64 square cm. What is the length?

8 cm

500
Length: ? Width: 8 meters Area: 128 square meters
16 meters
500

Length: ?

Width: 17 feet

Perimeter: 78 feet

22 feet

500

Hannah and Sally are planting gardens. Hannah's garden is 2 x 8 feet long. Sally's garden is 4 x 4 feet long. They want to put fencing around their gardens. Who will need more fencing?

Hannah

500
The area of a triangle is 12 feet square. If the height is 6, what is the base?

4 feet

500

This parallelogram is HUGE. It is 10657 feet tall and has an area of 319710  square feet. What is the length?

30 feet