Area Puzzles

Franco wants to buy carpet for his dining room. The room is in the shape of a rectangle and is 12 feet long and 8 feet wide. What is the area, in square feet, of the dining room floor?

• 20

• 4

• 84

• 96

A rectangle has a width of 9 inches. The area of the rectangle is 648 square inches. What is the length, in inches, of the rectangle?

• 144

• 36

• 657

• 72

Kyle has a summer job mowing lawns. Yesterday he mowed a rectangular shaped lawn that had an area of 360 square meters. If the length of the lawn was 30 meters, what was the width of the lawn?

• 390 meters

• 84 meters

• 330 meters

• 12 meters

A group of third grade boys created a miniature football field to play paper football during recess. The length of the football field was 24 inches, and the width was 11 inches. What was the area of the miniature football field in square inches?

• 264

• 35

• 70

• 13

A farmer wants to create a square vegetable garden. If he has 64 meters of fencing, what will be the area of his garden?

Find the area of an irregular shape that can be divided into two rectangles, one with an area of 12 square units and the other with an area of 8 square units.

• 16 square units

• 20 square units

• 24 square units

• 10 square units

A classroom's floor, which is rectangular, measures 11 meters by 9 meters. Calculate the area of the classroom floor.

• 99 sq m

• 90 sq m

• 20 sq m

• 110 sq m

Find the area of the rectangle.

• 8 square units

• 9 square units

• 10 square units

• 12 square units

Solve the word problem: A classroom is 9 units long and 7 units wide. What is the total area of the classroom?

• 16 square units

• 63 square units

• 56 square units

• 45 square units

A square tile has a side length of 4 inches. How many of these tiles are needed to cover an area of 64 square inches?

• 4 tiles

• 8 tiles

• 16 tiles

• 32 tiles