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Example Questions
Example Question #2 : Rectangles
A rectangle has a perimeter of 40 inches. It is 3 times as long as it is wide. What is the area of the rectangle in square inches?
45
86
60
75
75
The width of the rectangle is w, therefore the length is 3w. The perimeter, P, can then be described as P = w + w + 3w +3w
40 = 8w
w = 5
width = 5, length = 3w = 15
A = 5*15 = 75 square inches
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Angela is carpeting a rectangular conference room that measures 20 feet by 30 feet. If carpet comes in rectangular pieces that measures 5 feet by 4 feet, how many carpet pieces will she need to carpet the entire room?
30
600
20
29
31
30
First, we need to find the area of the room. Because the room is rectangular, we can multiply 20 feet by 30 feet, which is 600 square feet. Next, we need to know how much space one carpet piece covers. Because the carpet pieces are also rectangular, we can multiply 4 feet by 5 feet to get 20 feet. To determine how many pieces of carpet Angela will need, we must divide the total square footage of the room (600 feet) by the square footage covered by one carpet piece (20 feet). 600 divided by 20 is 30, so Angela will need 30 carpet pieces to carpet the entire room.
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
If the width of a rectangle is 8 inches, and the length is half the width, what is the area of the rectangle in square inches?
20
64
12
32
16
32
the length of the rectangle is half the width, and the width is 8, so the length must be half of 8, which is 4.
The area of the rectangle can be determined from multiplying length by width, so,
4 x 8 = 32 inches squared
Example Question #5 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
If Mrs. Stietz has a patio that measures 96 inches by 72 inches and she wants to cover it with stone tiles that measure one foot by half a foot, what is the minimum number of tiles she needs to cover the patio?
14
6912
96
12
48
96
96. Converting the dimensions of the tiles to inches, they each measure 12 inches by 6 inches. This means that there need to be 8 tiles to span the length of the patio, and 6 tiles to span the width of the patio. She needs to cover the entire area, so we can multiply 8 times 12 to get 96, the number of tiles she needs for the patio.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
The front façade of a building is 100 feet tall and 40 feet wide. There are eight floors in the building, and each floor has four glass windows that are 8 feet wide and 6 feet tall along the front façade. What is the total area of the glass in the façade?
192 ft2
768 ft2
2464 ft2
1536 ft2
1536 ft2
1536 ft2
Glass Area per Window = 8 ft x 6 ft = 48 ft2
Total Number of Windows = Windows per Floor * Number of Floors = 4 * 8 = 32 windows
Total Area of Glass = Area per Window * Total Number of Windows = 48 * 32 = 1536 ft2
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Area Of A Rectangle
Mark is making a plan to build a rectangular garden. He has 160 feet of fence to form the outside border of the garden. He wants the dimensions to look like the plan outlined below:
What is the area of the garden, rounded to the nearest square foot?
Perimeter: Sum of the sides:
4x + 4x + 2x+8 +2x+8 = 160
12x + 6 = 160
12x = 154
x =
Therefore, the short side of the rectangle is going to be:
And the long side is going to be:
The area of the rectangle is going to be as follows:
Area = lw
Example Question #651 : Psat Mathematics
Two circles of a radius of each sit inside a square with a side length of . If the circles do not overlap, what is the area outside of the circles, but within the square?
The area of a square =
The area of a circle is
Area = Area of Square 2(Area of Circle) =
Example Question #652 : Psat Mathematics
If the area Rectangle A is larger than Rectangle B and the sides of Rectangle A are and , what is the area of Rectangle B?
Example Question #71 : Quadrilaterals
Erin is getting ready to plant her tulip garden. She wants to plant two tulips per square foot of garden. If her rectangular garden is enclosed by 24 feet of fencing, and the length of the fence is twice as long as its width, how many tulips will Erin plant?
16
64
32
24
48
64
We know that the following represents the formula for the perimeter of a rectangle:
In this particular case, we are told that the length of the fence is twice as long as the width. We can write this as the following expression:
Use this information to substitute in a variable for the length that matches the variable for width in our perimeter equation.
We also know that the length is two times the width; therefore, we can write the following:
The area of a rectangle is found by using this formula:
The area of the garden is 32 square feet. Erin will plant two tulips per square foot; thus, she will plant 64 tulips.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Length Of The Diagonal Of A Square
What is the length of a diagonal of a square with a side length ? Round to the nearest tenth.
A square is comprised of two 45-45-90 right triangles. The hypotenuse of a 45-45-90 right triangle follows the rule below, where is the length of the sides.
In this instance, is equal to 6.