Solve each word problem. Show your work and include the correct units.
1. Each side of a square barn is 9 meters long.
a. What is the barn’s perimeter? ___________________
b. What is the barn’s area? ___________________
2. A rectangular piece of metal is 10 inches wide and 14 inches long.
a. What is the perimeter? ___________________
b. What is the area? ___________________
3. A rectangular cornfield has a length of 7 kilometres and an area of 63 square
kilometres.
a. What is the width of the cornfield? ___________________
b. What will be the area if the length and width are doubled? ______________
4. Eric has 54 yards of fencing to use for a flowerbed. Some possible measurements are
shown below. For which flowerbeds does Eric have enough fencing? Color in all the
possible answers.
A.
length = 30 yards
area = 300 square yards
B.
length = 20 yards
width = 5 yards
C.
width = 12 yards
perimeter = 48 yards
D.
length = 26 yards
width = 22 yards
E.
length = 16 yards
width = 14 yards
F.
width = 9 yards
area = 162 square yard
