πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1A puppy pen is 5 feet long and 10 feet wide. How many feet of fence go all the way around it?
Answer: ______________ feet
2Lily glues a frame around a picture that is 2 centimeters wide and 3 centimeters tall. How long is the frame all the way around?
Answer: ______________ centimeters
3Aiden swims along every side of a pool that is 9 meters long and 4 meters wide, back to the start. How far does Aiden swim?
Answer: ______________ meters
4Leo walks all the way around a park that is 3 yards long and 7 yards wide. How far does Leo walk?
Answer: ______________ yards
5Sam walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 20 feet in all. The yard is 7 feet long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
6Two gardens each have an area of 12 square feet. Garden A is 3 feet by 4 feet. Garden B is 2 feet by 6 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- AGarden B
- BGarden A
- CBoth the same
7The class bulletin board is 7 feet long and 2 feet tall. How many square feet of paper cover it?
Answer: ______________ square feet
8Two gardens each have an area of 20 square feet. Garden A is 2 feet by 10 feet. Garden B is 4 feet by 5 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- AGarden A
- BBoth the same
- CGarden B
9A path goes all the way around the edge of this playground. How long is the path?
Answer: ______________ feet
10Lily builds a pen for a puppy, 5 feet long and 8 feet wide. How many square feet of room does the puppy have?
Answer: ______________ square feet
11Two gardens each have an area of 18 square feet. Garden A is 2 feet by 9 feet. Garden B is 3 feet by 6 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- AGarden A
- BBoth the same
- CGarden B
12Priya glues a frame around a picture that is 6 inches wide and 8 inches tall. How long is the frame all the way around?
Answer: ______________ inches
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 30 feet
- 2. 10 centimeters
- 3. 26 meters
- 4. 20 yards
- 5. 3 feet
- 6. A (Garden B)
- 7. 14 square feet
- 8. A (Garden A)
- 9. 20 feet
- 10. 40 square feet
- 11. A (Garden A)
- 12. 28 inches
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