πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Priya's classroom is shaped like this plan. What is its area?
Answer: ______________ square meters
2Zoe's garden is 4 meters long and 4 meters wide. How many square meters of garden can Zoe plant?
Answer: ______________ square meters
3Lily has 36 meters of fence. It goes all the way around a rectangle-shaped garden that is 9 meters long. How wide is the garden?
Answer: ______________ meters
4Two gardens each have an area of 12 square feet. Garden A is 2 feet by 6 feet. Garden B is 3 feet by 4 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- ABoth the same
- BGarden B
- CGarden A
5A rectangle-shaped poster has an area of 14 square feet. It is 2 feet tall. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
6A rectangle-shaped playground has a perimeter of 30 feet. One side is 10 feet long. How long is the side next to it?
Answer: ______________ feet
7A puppy pen is 2 yards long and 10 yards wide. How many yards of fence go all the way around it?
Answer: ______________ yards
8Zoe swims along every side of a pool that is 3 meters long and 5 meters wide, back to the start. How far does Zoe swim?
Answer: ______________ meters
9Priya builds a pen for a puppy, 9 feet long and 4 feet wide. How many square feet of room does the puppy have?
Answer: ______________ square feet
10A garden is shaped like this plan. What is its area?
Answer: ______________ square feet
11The class bulletin board is 7 feet long and 4 feet tall. How many square feet of paper cover it?
Answer: ______________ square feet
12Two gardens each have an area of 24 square feet. Garden A is 4 feet by 6 feet. Garden B is 2 feet by 12 feet. Which garden needs more fence to go all the way around?
- ABoth the same
- BGarden A
- CGarden B
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 21 square meters
- 2. 16 square meters
- 3. 9 meters
- 4. C (Garden A)
- 5. 7 feet
- 6. 5 feet
- 7. 24 yards
- 8. 16 meters
- 9. 36 square feet
- 10. 22 square feet
- 11. 28 square feet
- 12. C (Garden B)
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