πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A playing field is 8 meters long and 9 meters wide. How many square meters of grass does it have?
Answer: ______________ square meters
2Omar walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 24 meters in all. The yard is 8 meters long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ meters
3Maya's garden is 3 feet long and 7 feet wide. How many square feet of garden can Maya plant?
Answer: ______________ square feet
4A park is 3 meters long and 6 meters wide. What is the area of the park?
Answer: ______________ square meters
5Zoe's team runs all the way around a field that is 4 yards long and 4 yards wide. How far is one lap?
Answer: ______________ yards
6Zoe paints a picture that is 9 centimeters wide and 6 centimeters tall. What is the area of the picture?
Answer: ______________ square centimeters
7A park is 2 yards long and 4 yards wide. What is the area of the park?
Answer: ______________ square yards
8Maya's garden is 3 meters long and 10 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Maya plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
9Sam paints a picture that is 2 centimeters wide and 4 centimeters tall. What is the area of the picture?
Answer: ______________ square centimeters
10Sam's team runs all the way around a field that is 10 yards long and 9 yards wide. How far is one lap?
Answer: ______________ yards
11A rectangle-shaped poster has an area of 63 square feet. It is 7 feet tall. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
12The class bulletin board is 10 feet long and 9 feet tall. How many square feet of paper cover it?
Answer: ______________ square feet
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 72 square meters
- 2. 4 meters
- 3. 21 square feet
- 4. 18 square meters
- 5. 16 yards
- 6. 54 square centimeters
- 7. 8 square yards
- 8. 30 square meters
- 9. 8 square centimeters
- 10. 38 yards
- 11. 9 feet
- 12. 90 square feet
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