Perimeter and Area Word Problems
The area of the rectangular sandbox is 32 square feet. The short side of the sandbox measures 4 feet. How long is the long side of the sandbox?
What is 8 feet
Katherine had a box of rocks that weighed 4 pounds. She put the rocks into 2 bags, each with the same weight. What is the weight of each bag, in ounces?
Grant ran 500 meters around a track. Harry ran 724 meters around the same track. How many more meters did Harry run than Grant?
What is 224 meters
2 hours= _____ min.
What is 120 minutes
l= 5 units
w=6 units
What is the perimeter?
What is 22 Units
One wall in Dennis's square bedroom is 13 feet long. What is the perimeter of Dennis's Bedroom.
What is 52 feet
Jamison ran 1,780 feet yesterday. Today he ran 2,165 feet. How many yards did Jamison run the past two days?
What is 1,315 yards
Ethan has 6 meters of string. He cuts the string into 3 pieces of equal length. How many centimeters long is each piece of string.
What is 200 centimeters
6 weeks= ____ days
42 days
l= 8 units
w=4 units
What is the area?
What is 32 square units
A square playground has an area of 900 square feet. What is the length of each side of the playground?
What is 30 feet
A supermarket sells 89 gallons of milk in January and 82 gallons of milk in February. Altogether, how many gallons of milk did the supermarket sell in January and February?
What is 171 gallons
Jamal put a cantaloupe with a mass of 450 grams in a bag. He adds another cantaloupe that had a mass of 485 grams. How many grams of cantaloupe are in the bag?
What is 935 grams
Donald takes the bus to work. The bus ride is 37 minutes long. Donald gets on the bus at 7:22. At what times does Donald get off the bus?
What is 7:29
l= 7 units
w=5 units
What is the area and perimeter?
What is 35 square units
What is 24 units
A rectangular rug has a perimeter of 20 feet. The length of the rug is 6 feet. What is the width of the rug in inches?
What is 48 inches
Felix has a dog that weighs 38 pounds. Felix's dog weighs twice as much as Marcell's dog does. In ounces, how much more does Felix's dog weigh than Marcell's dog.
What is 304 ounces
Tanisha has 35 millimeters of apple juice. She divides the juice evenly into 5 different glasses. How much juice does she pour into each glass.
What is 7 millimeters
Kinesha started her homework at 6:15. She finished at 7:32. How long did it take Kinesha to do her homework.
1 hour 17 minutes
l= 4 units
w= 7 units
What is the area and perimeter
What is 28 square units
What is 22 units
Barbara has a rectangle shaped mouse pad. The longest side of the mouse pad is 8 inches and the shortest side is 3 inches. What is the perimeter and area of the mouse pad?
What is perimeter 22 inches
What is area 24 inches
Grace buys a 2 foot piece of yellow ribbon and an 8 foot piece of pink ribbon at the craft store. How many times as long is the pink ribbon as the yellow ribbon? How many inches of ribbon does Grace have in all?
What is 4 times as long; 120 inches
Yeasmin has a cup with 27 milliliters of milk in it. She pours another 34 milliliters of milk into the cup. She then drinks 14 milliliters of the milk. How much milk is left in the cup?
What is 47 milliliters
What is the elapsed time from 8:30 A.M. to 12 P.M. (Noon)
What is 3 hours and 30 minutes
Enzo is building a dog run that measures 10 feet by 9 feet. How many feet of fencing does he need to fence in the area.
What is 38 feet.