Count the Square Area

What is the area of the rectangle?

• 48 sq feet

• 48 sq inches

• 28sq feet

• 28 feet

Each square in this rectangle equals 1 inch. How do you find the area?

•  There are 7 rows and 8 columns, so you should add 7 + 8 to get 15 total blocks.

• There are 8 columns and 7 rows, so you should subtract 8 – 7 to get 1 rectangle

• There are 7 rows and 8 columns, so you should multiply 7 × 8 to get 56 square inches

• D. There are 8 columns and 7 rows, and you add the 8 from top and bottom and the 7 from both sides to get 8 + 8 + 7 + 7 to get an area of 30.

What is the area of the shaded portion?

• 10 square units

• 13 square units

• 30 square units

• 20 square units

Lilly wants to find the area of this piece of glass using gray square tiles. Each tile has the area of 1 square unit. Which models show a way that Lily could find the area of the piece of glass?

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An artist paints a rectangular board using gray paint. Each square is 1 square foot. What is the area of the rectangle that the artist has painted gray?

• 16

• 20

• 4

• 5

Which is a way to find area?

• Counting the square units inside a shape

• Counting the square units around the outside of a shape

Farmer Bob's son built a pen for his pet pig. The pig pen is 6 feet long and 6 feet wide.  What is the area of the pen?

• 11 feet

• 30 feet

• 36 feet

• 36 square feet

What is the total area of the pink model?

• 3

• 4

• 7

• 12

Ben wanted to make a dog pen with an area of 36 square feet.  What could the dimensions of his dog pen be?

• 3 feet by 6 feet

• 9 feet by 9 feet

• 9 feet by 4 feet

• 5 feet by 6 feet

1. In order to find the area of a figure you must

• add up all the sides.

• multiply length times width.

• count each square unit inside the figure.

•  multiply length times width or  count each square unit inside the figure.