Area and Perimeter

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Q1. What is the length of a side of a square which has a perimeter of 16 cm?

Q2. Measure the length and the width of these regular shapes then calculate the area.
2a. 2b.

Area = ______ x ______ Area = ______ x ______

= __________ cm2 2
= __________cm

2c. 2d.

2
Area = ______ x ______ Area = ________ x ________ = cm

Area = ______ x ______

= __________ cm2
= __________ cm

Q3. A rectangular sheet of paper is 30 cm long and 20 cm wide. The area of the sheet is?
Q4. Both shapes have equal perimeters. What is the missing length of shape B?
Shape A Shape B

10m ??
29m 18 m

Q5. Use the following perimeter diagram to answer question 5.

18 km

5 km
10 km

?
?

10 km

Allison and her dad drove around the perimeter of the neighbourhood looking for their
dog. The diagram above shows the path they drove. In total, how many kms did they
drive?
Q6. Find the perimeter of the figure below

Q7. This rectangle has a perimeter of 12cm and an area of 8cm². Can you draw 2 more
shapes with the same perimeter but each with a different area?
4cm
2cm
Q8. A farmer needs to fence a square paddock with an area of 36km2. What is the
perimeter of the paddock? How do you know?

Challenge: If the fencing costs $250 per 100m2 how much will it cost the farmer to fence?

Q9. Find the area of each triangle.

 a) b)

Q10. Dana has been studying all night for a scholarship exam. She revised all her area
formulas but has had a brain freeze in the exam and is muddling up all her formulas.
Explain how she can use her understandings of rectangles to work out the area formulas
for a parallelogram, a triangle and a trapezium. In your explanation, include the formulas
(if you can) and justify why the formula works.