Area and Perimeter Word Problems

The length of a hexagon is 2in. What is the perimeter?

• 4in

• 12in

• 6in

• 36in

The perimeter of a rectangle is 42cm. If the width is 8cm, what is the length? Determine the area.

• 45, 200

• 13, 80

• 10, 80

• 13, 104

The length of a rectangle is 5 more than the width. What are the length and width of the rectangle if the perimeter is 34?

• L=10, W=5

• L=5, W=10

• W=11, L=6

• L= 11, W= 6

When the perimeter of a polygon is divided by 5, the length of a side is 25m. What is the name of the polygon? What is the perimeter?

• Hexagon, 145m

• Pentagon, 125m

• Octagon, 200m

• Decagon, 250m

Kayla wants to build a fence in her backyard. The length of her backyard is 30 feet and the width is 45 feet. How many feet of fence will she need to buy?

• 75 feet

• 1350 square feet

• 1350 feet

• 150 feet

Alicia's garden is 50 square feet. Inside of her garden she plants a section of tomatoes that is 3 feet by 4 feet. How much more space does she have left in her garden to plant other crops? 

• 62 square feet

• 8 square feet

• 38 square feet

• 12 square feet

The area of a soccer field is 56 square yards. The length of one side of the field is 8 yards. What is the width of the field? 

• 7 yards 

• 7 square yards

• 48 yards

• 9 yards

Farmer John walks his pet pig around his barn every day. The barn is 25 meters by 12 meters. If we walks the pig around the barn three times, how many meters did farmer John and his pig walk?

• 300 meters

• 222 meters

• 74 meters

• 37 meters

Jenny's room is 13 feet long and 12 feet wide. Ruth's room is 14 feet long and 11 feet wide. Whose room has the greater perimeter?

• Jenny

• Ruth

• They are the same 

Henrik drew a pentagon that has a perimeter of 11 centimeters. What is the missing side length for this pentagon?

• centimeter

• centimeters

• centimeters

• centimeters