Quiz about Area and Circumference Word Problems

Question 1

What does "circumference" mean?

Accepted Answer

Distance around a circle

Answer

Space a circle takes up

Answer

Line from one side of a circle to another

Answer

Line from center of circle to side

Question 2

What is the formula for the circumference of a circle?

Accepted Answer

3.14d

Answer

3.14r

Answer

3.14r2

Answer

3.14 x 2r

Question 3

What does the "area" of a circle mean?

Accepted Answer

Space inside the circle

Answer

Distance around the circle

Answer

The distance across the center of the circle

Answer

Half the distance across the center of the circle

Question 4

What is the formula for the area of a circle?

Accepted Answer

3.14r2

Answer

3.14d

Answer

3.14 x 2r

Answer

3.14r

Question 5

The Jones family wants to enclose their circular garden with a fence. To determine how much fencing to buy, what do you need to calculate; circumference or area?

Accepted Answer

circumference

Answer

area

Question 6

The Jones family wants to enclose their circular garden with a fence. To the nearest foot, what is the minimum length of fencing they need to buy?

Accepted Answer

393 ft

Answer

56.25 ft

Answer

246 ft

Answer

365 ft

Question 7

Shawn is placing a fence around a circular garden with a 15-foot diameter. To figure out how much fencing he will need, what should you find?

Accepted Answer

circumference

Answer

area

Question 8

Here is a picture of a Ferris wheel. It has a diameter of 80 meters. How far does a rider travel in three complete rotations around the Ferris wheel? To figure this out, which one would you find?

Accepted Answer

circumference

Answer

area

Question 9

Here is a picture of a Ferris wheel. It has a diameter of 80 meters.How far does a rider travel in three complete rotations around the Ferris wheel?

Accepted Answer

753.6 meters

Answer

251.2 meters

Answer

125.6 meters

Answer

376.8 meters

Question 10

The diameter of a bike wheel is 27 inches. If the wheel makes 15 complete rotations, how far does the bike travel? To figure this out, what you need to find?

Accepted Answer

Circumerence

Answer

Area

Question 11

The diameter of a bike wheel is 27 inches. If the wheel makes 15 complete rotations, how far does the bike travel?

Accepted Answer

1,271 inches

Answer

405 inches

Answer

85 inches

Answer

6,075 inches

Question 12

A circular kitchen table has a diameter of 60 inches. How much fabric is needed to cover the table top? To figure this out, what would you need to find?

Accepted Answer

Area

Answer

Circumference

Question 13

A circular kitchen table has a diameter of 60 inches. How much fabric is needed to cover the table top?

Accepted Answer

2,826 square inches

Answer

188 square inches

Answer

11,304 square inches

Answer

1,147 square inches

Question 14

Leiko lays a rectangular piece of construction paper on her desk. The construction paper is 16 centimeters long and 8 centimeters wide. She is able to cut two congruent circles from the construction paper as shown. After Leiko cuts the circles, approximately how many square centimeters of construction paper will she have left over? (Use 3.14 as an approximation of pi.)

-To solve, find the area of the largest shape and subtract the area(s) of the shapes inside.

Accepted Answer

27.52 square centimeters

Answer

50.24 square centimeters

Answer

77.76 square centimeters

Answer

100.48 square centimeters

Question 15

The courtyard outside East Middle School is in the shape of a rectangle and half-circle. What is the perimeter of the courtyard?

*To find the circumference of the half circle, find the full circumference then divide it by 2!

Accepted Answer

328.5 meters

Answer

407 meters

Answer

500 meters

Answer

7,850 meters

Question 16

The circumference of a pizza is 35 inches. What is the approximate radius of the pizza?

Accepted Answer

5.6 inches

Answer

11 inches

Answer

17.5 inches

Answer

3.5 inches

Question 17

Gregory wants to fertilize a circular vegetable garden. If the diameter of the vegetable garden is 50 meters, how many square meters will need to be fertilized?

Accepted Answer

1,963 square meters

Answer

7,850 square meters

Answer

157 square meters

Answer

1,157 square meters

Question 18

Gregory want to fertilize and fence a circular vegetable garden. The diameter of the vegetable garden is 50 meters. To find out how much fencing he will need, what should you find?

Accepted Answer

circumference

Answer

area

Question 19

Gregory want to fertilize and fence a circular vegetable garden. The diameter of the vegetable garden is 50 meters. How many square meters will need to be fertilized? What are you finding?

Accepted Answer

Area

Answer

Circumference

Question 20

Gregory now needs to fence the circular vegetable garden. The diameter of the vegetable garden is 50 meters. How much fencing is needed?

Accepted Answer

157 meters

Answer

314 meters

Answer

7,850 meters

Answer

1,963 meters

Question 21

The wheels on the bicycle are circles. The diameter of the large wheel is three times longer than the smaller wheel. How many times greater is the area of the larger circle than the area of the smaller circle? (ACTUALLY work this one out - can't be done in your head!)

Accepted Answer

9 times greater

Answer

3 times greater

Answer

6 times greater

Answer

12 times greater

Question 22

The London Eye has a diameter of 120 meters. If you are sitting in one of the capsules, about how far do you travel in one rotation of the Ferris wheel?

Accepted Answer

^{377 meters}

Answer

180 meters

Answer

^{11,300 meters}

Answer

125 meters

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