Square
What is the formula to find the area of a square?
A=s2 or A= l x w or A = bh
What is the formula to find the area of a rectangle?
Area= l x w or A = base x height
Which statement(s) is/are correct?
a) A triangle has double the area of a parallelogram.
b) A parallelogram has double the area of a triangle.
c) A parallelogram is a rectangle
d) A rectangle is a parallelogram.
b and d
What is the formula to find the area of a trapezoid?
Area= bhArea=h(base 1 + base 2)/2 or 1/2h(base 1 + base 2)
Jessica wants to put a fence around her 10 foot by 13 foot rectangular garden. How many feet of fencing will she need?
46 feet of fencing
The area of a square is 16 cm2. Find the length of one side.
4 cm
A hotel lobby measures 40 yards by 60 yards. Find the area
2,400 square yards
What is the area of a triangle that has a base of 5 inches and a height of 6 inches?
15 inches squared
True or False?
a) A trapezoid is a parallelogram.
b) A parallelogram is a trapezoid.
c) A rhombus is a trapezoid.
d) A trapezoid is a quadrilateral.
a) F
b) F
c) F
d) T
How many inches of matting is needed to frame an 8.5 inch by 11 inch print?
39 inches
The area of a square is 289 m2. Find the length of its side.
17 metres
Area of a rectangle is 832 inches and length is 64 inches. What is the width?
13 inches
Courtney wants to carpet part of her bedroom that is shaped like a right triangle with base 4 meters and height 5.2 meters. How much carpet will she need?
10.4 meters squared
A trapezoid has a bottom base of 4m and a top base of 8m. If the area of the trapezoid is 24m2, what is its height?
4m
The state of Colorado is nearly rectangular. It is about 589 kilometers by 456 kilometers. What is the perimeter of Colorado?
2,090 kilometers
Find the area of a square with a side measurement of 27 cm.
729 cm2
The area for a soccer field is 9,600 square yards. If one of the dimensions of the soccer field is 80 yards. Then what is its other dimension?
120 yards
Ella and Veronica are in charge of making a banner for the volleyball game this Saturday. The banner will be 3.5 feet high and have a base of 6 feet. If poster paper costs $0.50/ft2, how much will the paper for the banner cost?
$10.50
Norman is a sunflower farmer. His farm is in the shape of a trapezoid with a height measuring 3 miles and a base measuring 4.2 miles at the south end and 2.8 miles at the north end. What is the total land area Norman uses?
10.5 square miles
A park is rectangular with a length if 120 metres and a width of 88 metres. A fence is placed one metre away from the edge of the park and all around the park. What is the perimeter of the fence?
424 metres
Two squares each have side length of 6 cm. They are placed side to side so that the right side of one is exactly touching the left side of the other. What is the area and perimeter of the new shape that is formed?
Area= 72 cm2 and perimeter= 36 cm
Rashid can paint 2 square feet of fence in 10 minutes. How long will it take him to paint a fence that is 6 feet high by 25 feet long?
750 minutes
In order to make the best Babka Babies, Mrs. Feldman has to cut the dough into triangles that have a base of 2.4 inches and a height of 3.35 inches. Before it is rolled it is brushed with butter and chocolate. If Mrs. Feldman makes 100 Babka Babies, what is the measurement of the area that needs to be covered with butter and chocolate?
402 square inches of buttery chocolaty delight!
The 2 parallel sides of a trapezoid-shaped park measure 51 meters and 50 meters.The height of the park is 20 meters. If grass costs $10/m2, how much will it cost to buy grass to cover the entire park?
$10100
Ted is making a stop sign poster for a talk on safety to a first grade class. He will put a neon reflective strip around the perimeter of the stop sign so it is visible in the dark. Each of the stop sign’s sides is 16.34 inches. If the reflective strip costs $2/inch, what is the cost of the reflective strip?
$261.44