πagarwalmath · 3rd grade · Common Core 3.MD.D.8
🌻 Area & perimeter stories
Perimeter problems (including a missing side)
Name: ______________________Date: ____________
1Sam puts a fence around a garden that is 8 feet long and 9 feet wide, but leaves a 1-foot gap for a gate. How many feet of fence does Sam need?
Answer: ______________ feet
2Zoe puts a border all the way around a bulletin board that is 3 feet long and 10 feet tall. How many feet of border are needed?
Answer: ______________ feet
3Lily has 32 meters of fence. It goes all the way around a rectangle-shaped garden that is 8 meters long. How wide is the garden?
Answer: ______________ meters
4Lily walks all the way around a park that is 4 meters long and 3 meters wide. How far does Lily walk?
Answer: ______________ meters
5Priya puts a fence around a garden that is 4 feet long and 7 feet wide, but leaves a 2-foot gap for a gate. How many feet of fence does Priya need?
Answer: ______________ feet
6A rug in Maya's room is 3 feet long and 9 feet wide. How many square feet of floor does it cover?
Answer: ______________ square feet
7A rectangle-shaped playground has a perimeter of 14 yards. One side is 5 yards long. How long is the side next to it?
Answer: ______________ yards
8Leo swims along every side of a pool that is 3 meters long and 4 meters wide, back to the start. How far does Leo swim?
Answer: ______________ meters
9A rectangle-shaped poster has an area of 6 square inches. It is 2 inches tall. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ inches
10Sam walks all the way around a rectangle-shaped yard, 38 feet in all. The yard is 10 feet long. How wide is it?
Answer: ______________ feet
11Priya's garden has an area of 40 square inches. It is 5 inches wide. How long is it?
Answer: ______________ inches
12A playing field is 8 yards long and 6 yards wide. How many square yards of grass does it have?
Answer: ______________ square yards
Answer key: Area & perimeter stories
- 1. 33 feet
- 2. 26 feet
- 3. 8 meters
- 4. 14 meters
- 5. 20 feet
- 6. 27 square feet
- 7. 2 yards
- 8. 14 meters
- 9. 3 inches
- 10. 9 feet
- 11. 8 inches
- 12. 48 square yards
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