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13 Area and Perimeter

Practice 1 Perimeter of Rectangles and Squares

(1) Find the perimeter of each f igure.
(a) Perimeter of rectangle
7 cm 4 cm
7 4 7 4
   

 22 cm

(b) Perimeter of square  4  6

6 cm
 24 cm

(2) The perimeter of a rectangle is 32 cm. Its breadth is 5 cm. Find its length.
?

5 cm Perimeter = 32 cm

Length  Length   32  5  5
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 22 cm
Length  22  2
 11 cm
The length of the rectangle is 11 cm.

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 (3) The perimeter of a rectangle is 24 cm. Its length is 9 cm. Find its breadth.
9 cm Breadth  Breadth  24  9  9
 6 cm
? Perimeter = 24 cm Breadth  6  2
 3 cm
The breadth of the rectangle is 3 cm.

(4) T he perimeter of a square is 20 cm. Find the length of one side of

the square.
20  4  5
Perimeter The length of one side of the square is 5 cm.
?
 20 cm

(5) T he perimeter of a square is 36 cm. Find the length of one side of

the square.
36  4  9
The length of one side of the square is 9 cm.
? Perimeter
 36 cm
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Practice 2 Area of Rectangles and Squares

(1) Find the area of each f igure.
(a) 12 cm Area of rectangle  12  6

72 cm2
6 cm 

9 9
(b) 9 cm Area of square  

 81 cm2

(2) The area of a rectangle is 78 cm2. Its breadth is 6 cm. Find its length.
? Area  78 cm2
Length  6  78
Area  78 cm2 6 cm Length  78  6
 13 cm
The length of the rectangle is 13 cm.

(3) A rectangle has an area of 56 cm2. Its length is 8 cm. Find its breadth.
Area  56 cm2
8  Breadth  56
Area
? Breadth  56  8
 56 cm2
 7 cm
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8 cm The breadth of the rectangle is 7 cm.

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 (4) The area of a square is 64 cm2. Find the length of one side of the square.
Hint: What number multiplied by itself is equal to 64?
Area  64 cm2
64  8  8
?
Length  8 cm
Area  64 cm2 The length of one side of the square is 8 cm.

(5) The area of a rectangular piece of paper is 48 cm2. Its length is 8 cm.
(a) Find its breadth.
(b) Find the perimeter of the rectangular piece of paper.
8 cm (a) Breadth  48  8
 6 cm
Area The breadth of the rectangular piece of paper is 6 cm.
 48 cm2 ?
(b)
Perimeter 
 8686
 28 cm
The perimeter of the rectangular piece of paper is 28 cm.
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 (6) The area of a square garden is 100 m2.
(a) Find the length of each side of the garden.
(b) Find the perimeter of the garden.
(a) Area  100 m2
100  10  10
Length of each side  10 m
? Area  100 m2
The length of each side of the garden is 10 m.

(b) Perimeter  4  10
 40 m
The perimeter of the garden is 40 m.

(7) The perimeter of a rectangular carpet is 38 m. Its breadth is 7 m.

(a) Find its length.
(b) Find the area of the rectangular carpet.
(a)
Length + Breadth   38  2
?  19 m
Length  19  7
 12 m
7m The length of the rectangular carpet is 12 m.

(b) Area 
 12  7
 84 m2
The area of the rectangular carpet is 84 m2.
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 (8) The perimeter of a square handkerchief is 28 cm.
(a) Find the length of each side of the handkerchief.
(b) Find the area of the handkerchief.
(a) 28  4  7 cm
The length of each side of the handkerchief is 7 cm.
?
(b) Area 
 77
 49 cm2
The area of the handkerchief is 49 cm2.

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Practice 3 Composite Figures

(1) F ind the unknown lengths of the sides of each f igure. Then, f ind the
perimeter of each f igure. (All lines meet at right angles.)
(a) A 16 cm B AF  13  4
 17 cm
CD  16  4
13 cm  12 cm
?
? Perimeter
D  16  13  12  4  4  17
4 cm C
 66 cm
F E
4 cm

(b) P 5 cm Q QR  6 cm
VW  24  5  8
 11 cm
6 cm ?
8 cm
V S Perimeter
W
R  5  6  8  3  24 
3 cm ? 3 cm 3  11  6
U T  66 cm
24 cm
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 (2) Find the perimeter of the f igure. (All lines meet at right angles.)

A 3m 8m B HG  3 m
AH  GF  ED  12 m
3m Perimeter
G  3  8  12  8  3  12  3  3
H
 52 m
12 m
3m The perimeter of the f igure is 52 m.
E
F
3m

D C

(3) T om wants to put up a fence round the piece of land as shown. Find the
perimeter of the piece of land to f ind the length of fencing material he
needs. (All lines meet at right angles.)
A B AB  FE  DC
 7  13
 20 m
AF  ED  BC
 21 m
Perimeter
F E 21 m  20  21  13  7  21
7m  82 m
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D
C
13 m

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(4) Find the perimeter of the f igure. (All lines meet at right angles.)
Perimeter  34  42  34  42
 152 cm
The perimeter of the f igure is 152 cm.

42 cm

34 cm

(5) Find the area of the f igure.

9 cm Area of A  10  3
 30 cm2
Area of B  6  7
 42 cm2
B
A Area of whole f igure  30  42
10 cm
6 cm  72 cm2
The area of the whole f igure is 72 cm2.
3 cm
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 (6)  smaller rectangle is cut out from a bigger rectangle. Find the area of the
A
remaining f igure.
15 cm Area of bigger rectangle
 15  13
 195 cm2
Area of smaller rectangle
 11  10
13 cm  110 cm2
11 cm
Area of remaining f igure
 195  110
 85 cm2
The area of the remaining f igure is 85 cm2.
10 cm

(7) Find the area of each f igure. (All lines meet at right angles.)
(a) 22 cm Area of A  22  18
 396 cm2
Area of B  14  9
 126 cm2
Area of f igure 
 396  126
A 18 cm
 522 cm2

B 9 cm

14 cm

(b) Area of big rectangle 

 21  16
5 cm  336 cm2
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7 cm Area of small rectangle 

 75
16 cm  35 cm2
Area of f igure 
 336  35
 301 cm2
21 cm

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Practice 4 Word Problems

(1) T he following f igure shows a rectangular f ield that has a rectangular patch
of grass removed from one corner. Find the area of the f ield that is covered
with grass.
16 m
Remember to use
the four steps to
solve the problem.
12 m

6m

7m

12 6
Length of big rectangle  

 18 m

Area of big rectangle  16  18

 288 m2
16 7
Length of unshaded rectangle  
9
 m
6 9 54
Area of unshaded rectangle    m2

Area of shaded part  Area of big rectangle  Area of unshaded rectangle

 288  54
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 234 m2

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 (2)  enee has a cardboard measuring 90 cm by 80 cm. She cuts out a small
R
rectangular piece measuring 15 cm by 20 cm.
(a) Find the area of the remaining cardboard.
(b) Find the perimeter of the remaining cardboard.
90 cm

80 cm

20 cm

15 cm
(a) Area of cardboard  90  80
 7200 cm2
Area of small rectangle  15  20
 300 cm2
Area of remaining cardboard  7200  300
 6900 cm2

(b) Perimeter of remaining cardboard  90  80  75  20  15  60

 340 cm

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 (3) A carpet is laid on a rectangular f loor of length 9 m and breadth 6 m.
This leaves a margin of width 1 m round the carpet. Find the area of
the carpet. 9m
Length of carpet 
 911
7m 1m
Breadth of carpet 
 611
4m 1m 1m
carpet 6m
Area of carpet 
 74
 28 m2

1m

(4)  rectangular pond of length 18 m and breadth 8 m is surrounded by

A
a path 2 m wide as shown. Find the area of the path.
Area of big rectangle  22  12
 264 m2 2m
Area of pond  18  8
 144 m2
pond 8m
Area of path  264  144
 120 m2

2m

2m 18 m 2m
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 (5)  picture is mounted on a frame measuring 25 cm by 15 cm. It has a
A
border of 3 cm round it. Find the area and perimeter of the picture.
25 cm
3 cm

3 cm picture 3 cm 15 cm

3 cm

Length of picture  25  3  3
 19 cm
Breadth of picture  15  3  3
 9 cm
Area of picture  19  9
 171 cm2
Perimeter of picture  19  9  19  9
 56 cm

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 (6) Melanie makes a path of width 1 m round her rectangular patch of land.
The length and breadth of the outer boundary of the path are shown in
the f igure. Find the perimeter and area of the rectangular patch of land.
20 m
1m

12 m 1m land 1m

1m

Length of land  20  1  1
 18 m
Breadth of land  12  1  1
 10 m
Perimeter of patch of land  18  10  18  10
 56 m

Area of patch of land  18  10

 180 m2
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(7)  rectangular piece of paper is folded along the dotted lines to form the
A
f igure shown. Find the area of the rectangular piece of paper.
15 cm

7 cm 7 cm

7 cm

Area of the rectangular piece of paper 

 15  7
 105 cm2

* (8) T he following figure shows a square. The perimeter of the shaded part is
28 cm. Find the area of the square.
6 cm

Length  Length  28  6  6
 16 cm
Length  16 ÷ 2
 8 cm
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Area of square 
 88
 64 cm2

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Chapter 13 Review
(1) T he perimeter of a rectangular towel is 116 cm. Its breadth is 10 cm.
Lesson 1
Find the length of the towel.
?
Length  Length   116  10  10
 96 cm Perimeter = 116 cm 10 cm
Length  96  2
 48 cm
The length of the towel is 48 cm.

(2) The area of a square is 16 cm2. Find the length of a side of the square.
Lesson 1
16  4  4
Length  4 cm
The length of a side of the square is 4 cm.
Area = 16 cm2 ?
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 (3) Find the perimeter of the rectangle.
Lesson 1

Area 7m
 56 m2

30
Perimeter  m

(4) Find the area of the square.

Lesson 1

Perimeter
 28 m

49
Area  m2

(5) Eleanor walked 32 m round a square garden once.

Lesson 1
(a) Find the length of one side of the garden.
(b) Find the area of the square garden.
(a) 32  4  8 m ?
The length of one side of the garden is 8 m.

(b) Area of square garden  8  8

 64 m2 Perimeter  32 m
The area of the square garden is 64 m2.

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 (6) The area of a rectangular sand pit is 140 m2. Its breadth is 7 m.
Lesson 1
(a) Find the length of the sand pit.
(b) Vince skipped round the entire sand pit once. Find the distance
he skipped.
(a) Length  140  7 ?
 20 m
The length of the sand pit is 20 m. Area = 140 m2 7m

(b) Perimeter  20  7  20  7
 54 m
The distance he skipped is 54 m.

(7) Find the area and perimeter of the figure. (All lines meet at right angles.)
Lesson 2
Perimeter 
 10  16  10  16  4  4 16 m
 60 m

Area of big rectangle 

 16  10
 160 m2 10 m 4m
Area of small square  44
 16 m2 4m
Area of figure 
 160  16
 144 m2
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 (8)  rectangular painting is mounted onto a rectangular board measuring
A
Lesson 3
18 cm by 12 cm as shown. What is the area of the border?
Area of rectangular board  18  12 2 cm 2 cm
 216 cm 2
1 cm
Length of painting  18  2  2
 14 cm
Breadth of painting  12  1  1
painting 12 cm
 10 cm
Area of painting  14  10
 140 cm2
Area of border  216  140 1 cm
 76 cm2 18 cm

(9)  tailor cut out a smaller rectangle from a big rectangular piece of cloth.
A
Lesson 3
The remaining cloth as shown below has an area of 22 m2.
(a) Find the area of the original piece of cloth.
(b) Find the breadth of the original piece of cloth.
(a) Area of small rectangle cut off  2  4
 8 m2
Area of original piece of cloth 
 8  22 4m
 30 m2
6m
(b) Breadth 
 30  6
5m 2m

?
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 (10)  rectangular garden ABCD has a pavement made up of square tiles.
A
Lesson 3
Each square tile has an area of 4 m2. Find the area of the garden.
(All lines meet at right angles.)
square tile
A B
Garden
D C

4=22
The length of each side of the square tile is 2 m.
Length of garden 
 2  12
 24 m
Breadth of garden 
 23
6m
Area of garden 
 24  6
 144 m2
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