Formulas
What is the formula for area of a rectangle?
L x W
We are sitting at a table where the width of the table is 3 feet and the length is 8 feet. What is the area of the table?
24 ft2
b: 5 meters
h: 10 meters
50 m2
The dimensions for a triangular shaped book end is 5in by 6in. What is the area of the book end?
15in2
B1- 5in
B2- 10in
H- 6in
45in2
What is the formula for area of a square?
L x W
The entrance to the school has 2 benches, each bench has a width of 2 feet and a length of 9 feet. What is the area of both benches?
36ft2
A student was given a piece of construction paper in the shape of a parallelogram. The base is 6in and the height is 13in. What is the area of the construction paper?
78in2
The dimensions of a triangular shaped door stop is 4in by 4in. What is the area of the door stop?
8in2
b1 - 7ft
b2 - 14ft
h - 4ft
42ft2
What is the formula for area of a paralallagram?
Bh
A carton of a dozen eggs has a width of 3.5 inches, the length is 14 inches. What is the area of one carton of eggs?
49 in2
They are remodeling the kitchen and will be using tiles in the shapes of parallelograms. Each one has a base of 2.5 feet and the height of 3.5 feet. What is the are of one tile?
8.75 ft2
A large pizza slice has a base of 4in and a height of 7 inches. What is the area of 2 pizza slices?
28in2
The new tables for the school are shaped like trapezoids. The top side is 4ft, the bottom side is 8ft and the height is 5ft. What is the area of 2 tables?
60ft2
What is the formula for area of a triangle?
Bh ÷ 2
A carton of a 18 eggs has a width of 5.5 inches, the length is 16 inches. What is the area of 3 cartons of eggs?
297 in2
They are remodeling the kitchen and will be using tiles in the shapes of parallelograms. Each one has a base of 2.5 feet and the height of 3.5 feet. We will use 200 tiles. What will be the are of the entire kitchen floor?
1,750 ft2
Mom made 4 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cut each one into 2 triangles. Each triangle has a base of 4in and a height of 5in. What's the area of all the sandwiches?
160in2
We are building birdhouses out of small pieces of wood. The roofs of the houses are the shape of a trapezoid. They have a top base of 3in and a bottom base of 7inches. The space from base to base is 4in. If there are 12 students in the class, and each student had one trapezoid roof, what is the total area of all the roofs?
240in2
What is the formula for area of a trapezoid?
(b1 + b2) x h ÷ 2
The basketball court in 91.86ft long and 49.21ft wide. What is the area of the basketball court?
4,520. 4306 ft.2
We are remodeling 2 bedrooms in our house. We will be using parallelogram shaped vinyl. Each one is 2.5ft long and 4.5ft tall. We will need 150 pieces of vinyl for each bedroom. What is the total area for both bedrooms?
3,375ft2
The school ordered new triangular shaped couches. They are 6ft by 7ft. If the school ordered one for each classroom from k-6 grade, what is the total area of all the couches?
147ft2
We are building birdhouses out of small pieces of wood. The roofs of the houses are the shape of a trapezoid. They have a top base of 3in and a bottom base of 7inches. The space from base to base is 4in. If there are 12 students in the class, and each student has 2 trapezoid roofs, what is the total area of all the roofs?
480in2