All Common Core: 7th Grade Math Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #911 : Grade 7
In rectangle ABCD, the perimeter is 48 and side BC measures 4. What is the area of rectangle ABCD?
64
48
80
88
72
80
The perimeter of a rectangle is 2L + 2W, or 2 times the length plus 2 times the width. Here you're given that side BC is 4, which means that the opposite side, AD, is also 4. So since that is two widths, you now have:
8 + 2L = 48
So 2L = 40
That means that the length is 20.
Since the area is LW, you can calculate the area as 20 * 4 = 80.
Example Question #1 : Solve For Area Of A Rectangle
What is the area of rectangle WXYZ?
150
50
125
120
100
150
The area of a triangle is Length times Width. Here you can see that the length is 15 and the width is 10, so when you multiply 15 * 10 the answer is 150.
Example Question #913 : Grade 7
A rectangle's length is twice as long as its width. If the width of the rectangle is 4, what is its area?
32
8
24
16
12
32
The area of a rectangle is Length * Width. Here you're given the width as 4, so all you need to do is find the length and you can apply the formula.
Since the width is 4 and you know that the length is twice as long, that makes the length 8. Then Length * Width would be 8 * 4 = 32.
Example Question #3 : Solve For Area Of A Rectangle
A rectangle has sides of 2, 2, 7, and 7. What is the area of that rectangle?
14
7.5
22
18
9
14
The area of a triangle is Length * Width, and in a rectangle opposite sides are parallel and have the same length. So here you know that the widths are 2 and the lengths are 7. So multiply 7 * 2 to get your answer, which is 14.
Example Question #1 : Solve For Area Of A Triangle
Calculate the area of the provided figure.
In order to solve this problem, we need to recall the area formula for a triangle:
Now that we have the correct formula, we can substitute in our known values and solve:
Example Question #1 : Solve For Area Of A Triangle
What is the area of the triangle pictured above?
40
30
60
24
12
24
The area of a triangle is calculated using the formula . Importantly, the height is a perpendicular line between the base and the opposite point. In a right triangle like this one, you're in luck: the triangle as drawn already has that perpendicular line as one of the two sides. So here we will calculate . That gives us an answer of 24.
Example Question #2 : Solve For Area Of A Triangle
In triangle ABC above, the distance between point A and point D is 10 inches, and the area of the triangle is 20 square inches. What is the length of side BC?
4 inches
There is not enough information to answer the question
10 inches
8 inches
2 inches
4 inches
The area of a triangle can be calculated using the formula Area = 1/2 * Base * Height. Here you're given two of the unknowns in that formula:
Area = 20
Height = 10
So you can plug those into the area formula to solve for Base, the only remaining unknown:
20 = 1/2 * Base * 10
That means that 20 = 5 * Base, so Base = 4.
Example Question #3 : Solve For Area Of A Triangle
In triangle ABC, side BC measures 12 meters, and the shortest straight-line distance between point A and side BC is 5 meters long. What is the area of triangle ABC?
12
24
36
30
60
30
The area of a triangle can be calculated using the formula . The height of a triangle is a perpendicular line connecting the base and its opposite point; in any acute or right triangle - a triangle with no angles greater than 90 degrees - the height is also the shortest line between the base and the opposite point. Here that means that if you use BC = 12 as your base, then the distance of 5 between BC and point A is the height. That means that you can calculate the area:
Example Question #4 : Solve For Area Of A Triangle
The pictured right triangle has sides of 7, 24, and 25. What is the area of that triangle?
125
128
84
64
77
84
The area of a triangle can be calculated using the formula . Note that the height of any triangle is a perpendicular line between the base and its opposite angle; in a right triangle that's very convenient, because the right angle gives you that perpendicular relationship between two sides. So you can use 24 as the base and 7 as the height here. That means that the area is:
Example Question #1 : Finding Volume Of A Rectangular Prism
An aquarium is shaped like a perfect cube; the perimeter of each glass face is meters. If it is filled to the recommended capacity, then, to the nearest hundred cubic liters, how much water will it contain?
Insufficient information is given to answer the question.
Note:
A perfect cube has square faces; if a face has perimeter meters, then each side of each face measures one fourth of this, or meters. The volume of the tank is the cube of this, or
cubic meters.
Its capacity in liters is liters.
of this is
liters.
This rounds to liters, the correct response.