Calculating Area and Perimeter

What is the perimeter of this figure?

• 42 cm
• 49 cm
• 56 cm
• 63 cm

The length of one side of a square is 9 inches. What is the perimeter? (Hint: P=4s)

• 81 inches
• 36 inches
• 27 inches
• 18 inches

Mrs. Washington is putting up a wallpaper border around her son’s bedroom. The bedroom is the shape of a rectangle that is 18 feet wide by 19 feet long. How many feet of border will Mrs. Washington need? (Hint: P = 2l + 2w)

• 37 feet
• 72 feet
• 74 feet
• 76 feet

The perimeter of a parallelogram is 16 meters. One short side is 2 meters long. What is the length of one long side of the parallelogram?

• 2 meters
• 6 meters
• 18 meters
• 36 meters

Coach Hanks has his players run laps around the soccer field. What is the perimeter of the soccer field shown below? (Hint: P = 2l + 2w)

• 185 m
• 250 m
• 370 m
• 380 m

Nick’s rectangular patio measures 9 feet wide and 12 feet long. What is the perimeter of the patio?

• 21 feet
• 42 feet
• 54 feet
• 108 feet

What is the area of the figure?

• 22 square feet
• 44 square feet
• 98 square feet
• 105 square feet

What is the area of a rectangle with a length of 15 m and a width of 5 m?

• 40 square meters
• 50 square meters
• 75 square meters
• 100 square meters

The perimeter of a square is 24 centimeters. What is the area of the square?

• 24 square centimeters
• 36 square centimeters
• 37 square centimeters
• 576 square centimeters

The perimeter of the rectangle shown below is 28 centimeters. What is the area of the rectangle? 

• 12 square centimeters
• 14 square centimeters
• 36 square centimeters
• 48 square centimeters