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Understand Linear, Square, Cubic Measure
In the following exercises, would you measure each item using linear, square, or cubic measure?
height of a tree
length of a highway
In the following exercises, find
Use Properties of Rectangles In the following exercises, find the
The length of a rectangle is meters and the width is meters.
The length of a rectangle is feet and the width is feet.
A sidewalk in front of Kathy’s house is in the shape of a rectangle feet wide by feet long.
A rectangular room is feet wide by feet long. In the following exercises, solve.
Find the length of a rectangle with perimeter of centimeters and width of centimeters.
25 cm
Find the width of a rectangle with perimeter and length
The area of a rectangle is square meters. The length is meters. What is the width?
62 m
The width of a rectangle is centimeters. The area is square centimeters. What is the length?
The length of a rectangle is centimeters more than the width. The perimeter is centimeters. Find the length and the width.
24.5 in., 12.5 in.
The width of a rectangle is more than twice the length. The perimeter is inches. Find the length and the width.
Use Properties of Triangles
In the following exercises, solve using the properties of triangles.
Find the area of a triangle with base inches and height inches.
135 sq. in.
Find the area of a triangle with base centimeters and height centimeters.
A triangular road sign has base inches and height inches. What is its area?
600 sq. in.
If a triangular courtyard has sides feet and feet and the perimeter is feet, how long is the third side?
A tile in the shape of an isosceles triangle has a base of inches. If the perimeter is inches, find the length of each of the other sides.
7 in., 7 in.
Find the length of each side of an equilateral triangle with perimeter of yards.
The perimeter of a triangle is feet. One side of the triangle is feet longer than the shortest side. The third side is feet longer than the shortest side. Find the length of each side.
17 ft., 20 ft., 22 ft.
One side of a triangle is three times the smallest side. The third side is feet more than the shortest side. The perimeter is feet. Find the lengths of all three sides.
Use Properties of Trapezoids
In the following exercises, solve using the properties of trapezoids.
The height of a trapezoid is feet and the bases are and feet. What is the area?
100 sq. ft.
The height of a trapezoid is yards and the bases are and yards. What is the area?
Find the area of the trapezoid with height meters and bases and meters.
675 sq. m
A flag is shaped like a trapezoid with height centimeters and the bases are and centimeters. What is the area of the flag?
Use Properties of Circles
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