Area, Perimeter, and Circumference Word Problems

Daniel wants to buy cookies for her friend. The
radius of a cookie is 5 inches. What is the distance around the cookie?

• 10 in
• 2.5 in
• 15.7 in
• 31.4 in 

Mrs. Apple just bought a new dinning room table. She needs to make a table cloth for decoration. What amount of fabric should she buy if the table has a diameter of 5 feet? Choose the equation that would best help solve this problem.

• C = π5
• C = (2)(π)(2.5)
• A = π5²
• A = π2.5²

Your Geometry teacher rents a fast car for the weekend. Her friend, a Physics teacher, uses a stopwatch to time how long it takes your teacher to make one complete revolution about the track. Is this question circumference or area?

• Circumference
• Area

Steven purchases a bowl. The diameter of the
bowl is 14 cm. What is the distance around the bowl?

• 21.98 cm
• 43.98 cm
• 87.96 cm
• 7 cm

A circular swimming pool is 21 feet in diameter.

How many feet around is the pool?

• 10.5 ft

• 42 ft

• 65.94 ft

• 131.95 ft

A circular swimming pool has a 21 foot diameter.

How many square feet of tarp would be needed to cover the pool?

• 10.5 ft

• 42 ft

• 1384.74 sq ft

• 346.185 sq ft

Alex has trained his puppy, Popper, to jump through a ring. According to Alex's measurements and calculations, the ring has a diameter of 3.5 feet. What is the ring's circumference (use 3.14 for pi)?

• 11.32 ft
• 12.25 ft
• 10.99 ft
• 8.75 ft

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?

• 56.25 ft
• 246.2 ft
• 365.56 ft
• 392.5 ft

The spray from a spinning lawn sprinkler makes a circle with a 40 foot radius. If Ben and his friends want to play and get wet, how much space do they have?

• 1256 sq ft

• 5024 sq ft

• 125.6 sq ft

• 251.2 sq ft

Jason is painting a large circle on one wall of his new apartment. The largest distance across the circle will be 8 feet. Approximately how many square feet of wall will the circle cover?

• 200.96 ft²

• 50.24 ft²

• 25.12 ft²

• 20.96 ft²