πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A puppy pen is 7 feet long and 3 feet wide. How many feet of fence go all the way around it?
Answer: ______________ feet
2Leo's garden is 5 feet long and 5 feet wide. How many square feet of garden can Leo plant?
Answer: ______________ square feet
3A rug in Lily's room is 4 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many square feet of floor does it cover?
Answer: ______________ square feet
4A rectangle-shaped poster has an area of 25 square feet. It is 5 feet tall. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
5Lily walks all the way around a park that is 4 meters long and 8 meters wide. How far does Lily walk?
Answer: ______________ meters
6Leo walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 12 meters in all. The yard is 3 meters long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ meters
7Zoe puts a fence all the way around a garden that is 2 meters long and 5 meters wide. How many meters of fence does Zoe need?
Answer: ______________ meters
8Maya's garden is 4 meters long and 10 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Maya plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
9Leo walks all the way around a park that is 10 meters long and 8 meters wide. How far does Leo walk?
Answer: ______________ meters
10Zoe walks all the way around a park that is 7 meters long and 7 meters wide. How far does Zoe walk?
Answer: ______________ meters
11A rug covers 70 square feet of floor. It is 7 feet wide. How long is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
12Aiden has 16 yards of fence. It goes all the way around a rectangle-shaped garden that is 6 yards long. How wide is the garden?
Answer: ______________ yards
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 20 feet
- 2. 25 square feet
- 3. 32 square feet
- 4. 5 feet
- 5. 24 meters
- 6. 3 meters
- 7. 14 meters
- 8. 40 square meters
- 9. 36 meters
- 10. 28 meters
- 11. 10 feet
- 12. 2 yards
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