LESSON #3
GEOMETRY
(Perimeter and Area)
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PERIMETER – is the distance around a shape.
AREA – the surface inside the shape
I. Answer the word problems below and show your solution.
1) The perimeter of a rectangular playground is 36 meters. If the length of the park is 6 meters, what is the
width of the park?
2) Oliver wants to measure the perimeter of his bedroom. His bedroom floor is an exact square and one
side measures 4m. What is the perimeter of Oliver’s room?
3) The rectangular room measures 15 meters by 7 meters. What is the area of this room?
4) Emily wants new carpeting for her room. Her room is a 12 ft by 12 ft rectangle. How much carpeting
does she needs to buy to cover her entire room?
5) The school has a rectangular flower garden that is 5 meters long and 12 meters wide. One bag of
fertilizer can cover 5 square meters. How many bags will the school need to buy for the entire garden?
6) Sally is buying tiles for her bathroom floor. Each tile is 1 foot by 1 foot. Her bathroom floor measures
20 feet by 7 feet. How many tiles will she need?
7) The perimeter of a rectangular field is 80 ft and its width is 10 ft. Find the area of this field.
8) The farmer wants to put a wooden fence around a piece of land to keep his sheep away from his cows.
One side of the fence is 12m, the second side is 11m, and the third side is 13m. How much wood he
needs to for the fence?
9) The length and width of a rectangular field are 150 meters and 125 meters. What is the perimeter of the
field?
10) The side of a square field is 28 meters.it has to be fenced by 3 rounds of wire. How much wire will be
needed?
11) Meena has triangular piece of quilt having sides 15cm, 20cm and 22cm. She wants to fix 4 rounds of a
lace as border to cloth. How much lace would she require?
12) The perimeter of a square is 60 cm. Find the length of its side.
13) Frazer gets some masking tape to put around the edge of the wall he is painting. How much masking
tape does he need?
14) The perimeter of a triangle is 50 cm. if two sides are 15cm and 20cm, find the third side.
15) Stephanie is baking a rectangular cake. She plans to border the cake with ribbon in alternating colors.
The total perimeter of the pan is 44 inches. If one side of the pan is 13 inches, what is the other
dimension of the pan?
16) Find the area of a rectangle whose length is 10m and width is 3.5m.
17) The area of a rectangular field is 540 square meters. If its length is 36m, find its width.
18) Tyger is making a wooden box. The base measures 16cm by 5cm. What length of wood does he needs
to go around the sides?
19) Captain is building a rectangular rabbit enclosure for his pet rabbit. The enclosure measures 15m by 5m.
How much fence does he need for the enclosure?
20) Andy has baked rectangular cake and wants to place a ribbon around the cake. He uses a ruler to
measure each side and he writes down the measurements of 24cm, 14cm, 24cm and 14cm. How much
ribbon does he need to go all the way around the cake?
