Word Problems Perimeter of Rectangle
Miss. Maddi needs a pen for her lemurs that is 10 ft wide and 20 feet long. What is the perimeter of Miss Maddi's lemurs' habitat?
60ft
Miss Maddi wants to make sure she has an area over 30ft2, for her sheep, the habitat is currently 10ft long and 8ft wide. Is the sheep habitat big enough? what is the area? Dont forget area is squared2
Yes! The area is 80ft2
Miss Maddi has a square habitat for her 5 Arctic foxes that is 20ft long and 20 ft wide.
What is the perimeter?
What is the area?
Perimeter- 80 ft
Area- 400ft2
Miss Maddi has decided to make a tessellation in the gift shop, so she has decided that one wall will be parallelograms. The parallelogram is 5ft wide and 3ft long.
What is the perimeter of the parallelogram?
Perimeter- 16ft
Miss Maddi has decided that the second wall of her gift shop will be a tessellation of trapezoids, so she makes a bunch of trapezoid shelves, but there is one problem: she forgot to measure that they need to have a perimeter of no more than 89ft to fit on the wall perfectly.
Currently, her trapezoids are 5 ft on top 8 ft on the sides and 15 ft on the bottom.
What is the current perimeter?
Current perimeter- 36ft
Miss. Maddi also needs a habitat for her bunnies. It needs to be 15 feet long and 23 feet wide. What is the perimeter of the bunny habitat?
76 feet
Miss Maddi wants to make sure her butterfly exhibit is over 60ft2. Currently, the exhibit is 6ft long and 8ft wide. Is Miss Maddi's butterfly exhibit big enough? What is the area?
No! the area is 48ft2
Miss Maddi has a square base for her cafeteria; it is 15ft long and 15ft wide. It has to have a perimeter of at least 50 ft and an area of 100ft2 to have 300 people in her zoo at once. Can Miss Maddi do this?
Yes!!
Perimeter-60ft
Area-225ft2
Miss Maddi needs her parallograms area to be at least 30ft2 to hold the souvenirs. (remember area is base x height)
The parallelograms are 5ft wide and 3ft long.
what is the area?
will the souvenirs fit?
Area is 15ft2
No!
Miss Maddi realized halfway through putting her shelving up that she needs to have an area of at least 50ft2 to fit the other souvenirs.
If they are currently 9ft tall, 5 ft on top, 8 ft on the sides, and 15 ft on the bottom. Will my souvenirs fit?
What is my area?
Remember trapezoids: A= b1+b2 x h / 2
Yes!
Area is 70ft2
Miss. Maddi just got 2 new polar bears, now she needs a really big habitat, it needs to be 50 ft long and 100 ft wide!! what is the perimeter of the polar bear habitat?
300 ft
Miss Maddi just got a new shark!! She wants to build a habitat that is 399ft2 or more. So she built an exhibit that is 37 ft wide and 29 feet long. Is the shark habitat big enough? What is the area?
Yes!! The area is 1,073ft2
Miss Maddi wants a square exhibit in the middle of her zoo for her lions. She needs it to have an area over 300ft2 and a perimeter of no less than 50ft. The lion exhibit is 27ft long.
Can Miss Maddi have her dream lion exhibit?
What is the perimeter?
What is the Area?
Yes!!!
Perimeter- 108ft
Area- 729ft2
Miss Maddi made bigger parallelograms. They are now 10ft wide and 15 ft long. What is my new perimeter?
Perimeter is now 50ft
Miss Maddi has decided she wants to paint the trapezoids blue to stand out on the white walls. The paint store says she'll need 5 cans of paint if the trapezoid's perimeter is over 20ft. What is the perimeter? Currently, her trapezoids are 5 ft on top, 8 ft on the sides, and 15 ft on the bottom.
Will she need 5 cans?
perimeter is 36ft
Yes!!
Miss. Maddi got 5 donkeys; her current habitat is 50 ft long and 75 ft wide, but the zookeeper said if it is over 200ft Miss Maddi can get another donkey!! Can Miss. Maddi get a new donkey? What is the perimeter?
Yes, the perimeter is 250 ft
Miss Maddi just got a few penguins, so she built a habitat that is 33ft long and 47ft wide. What is the area?
1,551ft2
Miss Maddi has a square exhibit that is 18 ft wide.
What is the perimeter?
What is the area?
Perimeter- 72ft
Area- 324ft2
My area of my parallelogram needs to be at least 30ft2 to fit all of the souvenirs. My new measurements are 9ft tall, 10ft wide, and 15 ft long.
What is my new area?
Will my souvenirs finally fit?
new area is- 135ft2
Yes!
Miss Maddi is finally on the last trapezoid for her tessellation, but oh no! It's too big, she needs a trapezoid that has a perimeter no more than 30 ft! Miss Maddi made a new shelf without measuring it is now 3ft on top, 4 ft on the sides, 5 ft tall, and 9ft on the bottom. What is my new perimeter? will my new shelf fit?
The new perimeter is 20ft
Yes, it will fit!
A new zookeeper just brought in 3 saved proboscis monkeys, Miss Maddi is going to build a cage 88 ft long and 83 ft wide. what is the perimeter of the new monkey habitat?
342 ft
Miss Maddi just built a rectangular exhibit for a zebra. It is 43 feet wide and 24 ft long. if it is over 1090ft2 Miss Maddi will buy 3 more Zebras. Can I buy 3 more Zebras? What is the area?
No!! the area is 1,032ft2
Miss Maddi wants a square exhibit for an exotic bug that is 1ft long.
What is the perimeter?
What is the area?
Perimeter- 4 ft
Area- 1ft2
Miss Maddi almost finished her tessellation, and she's down to the last parallelogram. The area needs to be at less than 70ft2. If Miss Maddi makes a new parallelogram just for this last spot, and it is 6ft long, 8ft wide, and 9ft tall.
Will it fit?
What is the area?
Yes!!
New area- 54ft2
But Miss Maddi is so silly and keeps forgetting that she NEEDS to check the area, so she decides that as long as it's AT LEAST 50 ft2, she can make it work if our new measurements are 3ft on top, 4 ft on the sides, 5 ft tall, and 9ft on the bottom. Can we make this work? what is my new area?
No!!
the area is 24ft2