πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Priya walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 20 yards in all. The yard is 7 yards long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ yards
2Leo paints a picture that is 10 inches wide and 2 inches tall. What is the area of the picture?
Answer: ______________ square inches
3Zoe paints a picture that is 9 centimeters wide and 8 centimeters tall. What is the area of the picture?
Answer: ______________ square centimeters
4Zoe's garden is 2 meters long and 2 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Zoe plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
5Omar walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 28 yards in all. The yard is 9 yards long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ yards
6A pool cover has to cover a pool 10 feet long and 9 feet wide. How many square feet is the cover?
Answer: ______________ square feet
7A rug in Zoe's room is 9 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many square feet of floor does it cover?
Answer: ______________ square feet
8A rug in Zoe's room is 10 feet long and 7 feet wide. How many square feet of floor does it cover?
Answer: ______________ square feet
9Sam puts a border all the way around a bulletin board that is 2 feet long and 9 feet tall. How many feet of border are needed?
Answer: ______________ feet
10Omar's garden is 9 feet long and 2 feet wide. How many square feet of garden can Omar plant?
Answer: ______________ square feet
11A pool cover has to cover a pool 8 meters long and 2 meters wide. How many square meters is the cover?
Answer: ______________ square meters
12Lily has 10 meters of fence. It goes all the way around a rectangle-shaped garden that is 3 meters long. How wide is the garden?
Answer: ______________ meters
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 3 yards
- 2. 20 square inches
- 3. 72 square centimeters
- 4. 4 square meters
- 5. 5 yards
- 6. 90 square feet
- 7. 72 square feet
- 8. 70 square feet
- 9. 22 feet
- 10. 18 square feet
- 11. 16 square meters
- 12. 2 meters
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