πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Maya sews a ribbon all the way around the edge of a rug that is 8 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many feet of ribbon does Maya need?
Answer: ______________ feet
2A rug covers 24 square meters of floor. It is 4 meters wide. How long is it?
Answer: ______________ meters
3A rectangle-shaped playground has a perimeter of 8 yards. One side is 2 yards long. How long is the side next to it?
Answer: ______________ yards
4Lily's garden is 7 meters long and 9 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Lily plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
5Sam walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 26 feet in all. The yard is 8 feet long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
6A park is 2 meters long and 2 meters wide. What is the area of the park?
Answer: ______________ square meters
7Lily walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 18 feet in all. The yard is 6 feet long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
8Zoe has 22 feet of fence. It goes all the way around a rectangle-shaped garden that is 8 feet long. How wide is the garden?
Answer: ______________ feet
9A park is 4 meters long and 9 meters wide. What is the area of the park?
Answer: ______________ square meters
10Maya walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 32 meters in all. The yard is 9 meters long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ meters
11Aiden's garden is 7 meters long and 2 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Aiden plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
12Sam's garden is 4 meters long and 8 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Sam plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 32 feet
- 2. 6 meters
- 3. 2 yards
- 4. 63 square meters
- 5. 5 feet
- 6. 4 square meters
- 7. 3 feet
- 8. 3 feet
- 9. 36 square meters
- 10. 7 meters
- 11. 14 square meters
- 12. 32 square meters
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