Real World Use
Perimeter
Area
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100

What does perimeter measure?

What is the outside/around a shape.

100

A rectangular piece of cheese is 9 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. What is the perimeter of the cheese?

28 centimeters 

100

The length of a rug is 8 feet. The width of the rug is 3 feet. What is the area of the rug?

24 square feet

100

What is the area of a shape if it has a length of 6 feet and a width of 6feet?

36 square feet

200

What does area measure?

The inside of a shape

200

What is the perimeter of the tv?

84 inches

200

The bedroom is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. What is the area of the room?

120 square feet

200

What is the perimeter of a square with sides measuring 8 feet?

32 feet

300

To build a fence, I would measure...

perimeter

300

A rectangular table is 20 inches long and 32 inches wide. What is the perimeter of the table?

104 inches

300

Karen's grandma is making her a quilt. The quilt has 8 square foot blocks with 9 square foot blocks in each row. What is the area of the quilt?

72 square feet

300

Mrs. Joni wants to hang up a new picture. However, she has to make sure the picture will fit in the small space that she has. The area she has available for the picture is 100 square inches. Will a picture that measures 10 inches in width and 15 inches length fit? How do you know?

No, the picture will have an area of 150 inches squared, which is too big for the space.

400

Mr. Stimmell wants to buy carpet for a new tree house, what will he use to find how much carpet he needs to buy?

area

400

Sarah is putting fence around her garden. She know the perimeter is 48 feet. She has already fenced in three sides each measuring 12 feet long. How much more fence does she need to finish fencing in her garden?

12 feet

400

Sarah has a rectangular garden. The area of the garden is 28 square meters. The length of the garden is 7 meters. What is the width?

4 meters

400

Mrs. Jones wants her husband to build a new tree house. She asks that he makes the base of it 10 feet in width and 9 feet in height. What will be the area of the base of the new tree house?

90 square feet

500

You are building a playground, and need to build a fence and put mulch inside of the fence. Will you have to measure for area or perimeter?

Area for the mulch

Perimeter for the fence.

500

Terry is putting trim around a triangular picture frame. He knows he needs 27 centimeters of trim. Two of the sides are both 8 centimeters long. How long is the third side?

11 centimeters

500

Josh has a square table. The area of the table is 64 square inches. What are the length and width?

8 inches

500

The new outdoor classroom is going to have an area of 180 square feet. If the width of the outdoor classroom is 10 feet, what is the length?

18 feet