πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Lily walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 20 feet in all. The yard is 5 feet long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
2A puppy pen is 10 yards long and 4 yards wide. How many yards of fence go all the way around it?
Answer: ______________ yards
3A path goes all the way around the edge of this playground. How long is the path?
Answer: ______________ meters
4Two gardens each have an area of 16 square feet. Garden A is 4 feet by 4 feet. Garden B is 2 feet by 8 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- ABoth the same
- BGarden B
- CGarden A
5Zoe walks all the way around a park that is 7 meters long and 5 meters wide. How far does Zoe walk?
Answer: ______________ meters
6Zoe sews a ribbon all the way around the edge of a rug that is 2 feet long and 4 feet wide. How many feet of ribbon does Zoe need?
Answer: ______________ feet
7A park is 5 yards long and 9 yards wide. What is the area of the park?
Answer: ______________ square yards
8Two gardens each have an area of 36 square feet. Garden A is 4 feet by 9 feet. Garden B is 3 feet by 12 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- AGarden B
- BGarden A
- CBoth the same
9Lily swims along every side of a pool that is 4 feet long and 3 feet wide, back to the start. How far does Lily swim?
Answer: ______________ feet
10Lily puts a fence all the way around a garden shaped like this plan. How many meters of fence does Lily need?
Answer: ______________ meters
11The class bulletin board is 2 feet long and 4 feet tall. How many square feet of paper cover it?
Answer: ______________ square feet
12A playing field is 9 meters long and 3 meters wide. How many square meters of grass does it have?
Answer: ______________ square meters
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 5 feet
- 2. 28 yards
- 3. 26 meters
- 4. B (Garden B)
- 5. 24 meters
- 6. 12 feet
- 7. 45 square yards
- 8. A (Garden B)
- 9. 14 feet
- 10. 30 meters
- 11. 8 square feet
- 12. 27 square meters
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