Year 8 Shapes 2022

If the length of a rectangle is 7cm and the width is 8cm, find the area of the rectangle.

If this rectangle had a friend with the same width (8cm) but a length of 10 cm, what would the area be?

Calculate the area of this rectangle,.

Calculate the area of a triangle with base = 2m and height = 4m

Calculate the area of the triangle.

• 16

• 32

• 12

• 6

If a is the base and h is the height. Calculate the area of a parallelogram with a=3 and b=5.

• 8

• 16

• 15

• 7.5

Calculate the area of this parallelogram.

Calculate the area of a trapezium with sides a=1cm, b=3cm and h=3cm

Calculate the area of the following shape

The top 2 methods can be used to calculate the area of a rhombus. If a rhombus has side lengths of 5 and a height of 6 calculate the area of the rhombus. (hint: formula 2)